index.Rmd

---
title: "COVID-19 mortality and long-term care: a UK comparison"
---
    
Code to accompany the report published by the International Long-Term Care Policy Network [here](https://ltccovid.org/2020/08/28/covid-19-mortality-and-long-term-care-a-uk-comparison/)

Authors: David Bell, Adelina Comas-Herrera, David Henderson, Siôn Jones, Elizabeth Lemmon, Mirko Moro, Siobhán Murphy, Dermot O'Reilly, Pietro Patrignani. 

## Information

The code used to create plots and summary figures for the above report are available here from the links under the Analysis menu at the top of the page. 

* File 1 shows the wrangling of data from each nation's care inspectorate body to enable further analysis in file 2
* File 2 details code to produce Figures 1-3 and some summary statistics for table 1 in the report
* File 3 shows code and summary statistics for the Excess deaths section of the report (Figures 5 and 6)

Raw code and data can be found [on the project GitHub page](https://github.com/davidhen/ltc_covid_uk)

Plots on these pages (and saved on the project GitHub page) contain titles and captions unlike those used in the report which contains this infomation in-text.

![](assets/ilpn_logo_text_400x126.png){width=200px}
![](assets/stirling.png){width=200px}
![](assets/SCADR Logo_Primary_Full Colour_HI.png){width=200px}
![](assets/Edinburgh_Napier_Uni_Logo_Small_730_290_80.jpg){width=200px}
![](assets/University_of_Edinburgh-Logo.wine.png){width=200px}
![](assets/EHE_logo_default.jpeg){width=200px}

![](assets/london-economics-logo.png){width=200px}
![](assets/qub_logo.jpg){width=200px}
![](assets/cropped-LSE-Logo_Master-File_RGB_Txt_Blk_e0112b.png){width=200px}