Organisational conditions for safety management practice in homecare and nursing homes, pre-pandemic and in pandemic. March 27, 2024

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/organisational-conditions-safety-management-practice-homecare-and-nursing-homes-pre-pandemic Organisational conditions for safety management practice in homecare and nursing homes, pre-pandemic and in pandemic. Dellve L, Skagert K. Safety Sci. 2024;174:106488. Rates of transmission of COVID-19 were high in nursing homes for both residents and staff with wide variation in implementing infection control measures. This study describes the gaps between infection control work-as-imagined and work-as-done in nursing homes and home health before and during the pandemic. Gaps included instructions for personal protective equipment created for hospitals that were not practical for providing care inside a recipient's homecare or nursing home.