Heat-related deaths in social care in England: can the Care Quality Commission ratings system be used to identify care homes that would benefit most from heat adaptation measures?
Background The health impacts of rising temperatures in care home settings are of growing concern. We seek to characterise the risk of heat-related mortality in nursing and residential care home settings in England and to assess potential modification of heat effects by Care Quality Commission (CQC)...
| Publicado en: | Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1 - 8 |
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