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. 2022 Feb;70(2):379-383.
doi: 10.1111/jgs.17515. Epub 2021 Oct 22.

Fighting the COVID-19 nursing home crisis: The untold story of the nursing assistants

Beth Scheffler  1 , Karen Petruccelli  2 , Amy W Baughman  3   4 , Mark Yurkofsky  4   5 , Lewis A Lipsitz  4   6   7 , Rossana Lau-Ng  8   9
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Fighting the COVID-19 nursing home crisis: The untold story of the nursing assistants

Beth Scheffler et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Feb.
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Conflict of interest statement

The coauthors were co‐facilitators, advisors, or subject matter experts for the AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID‐19 Action Network Massachusetts Training Center and received small hourly stipends for their roles. No specific funding was provided to support this manuscript, and all effort was contributed independently of the program. Dr. Lipsitz was a member of the Advisory Committee for the AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID‐19 Action Network and Project Director at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center.

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