Papers › A study on group fairness in healthcare outcomes for nursing home residents during the...
A study on group fairness in healthcare outcomes for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Basque Country
Hristo Inouzhe, Irantzu Barrio, Paula Gordaliza, María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez, Itxaso Bengoechea, José María Quintana
The archive published only this paper's code-link row. Authors, date and abstract are from arXiv's metadata (CC0), read from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12 where its title matched the archive's; the title is the archive's.
We explore the effect of nursing home status on healthcare outcomes such as hospitalisation, mortality and in-hospital mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some claim that in specific Autonomous Communities (geopolitical divisions) in Spain, elderly people in nursing homes had restrictions on access to hospitals and treatments, which raised a public outcry about the fairness of such measures. In this work, the case of the Basque Country is studied under a rigorous statistical approach and a physician's perspective. As fairness/unfairness is hard to model mathematically and has strong real-world implications, this work concentrates on the following simplification: establishing if the nursing home status had a direct effect on healthcare outcomes once accounted for other meaningful patients' information such as age, health status and period of the pandemic, among others. The methods followed here are a combination of established techniques as well as new proposals from the fields of causality and fair learning. The current analysis suggests that as a group, people in nursing homes were significantly less likely to be hospitalised, and considerably more likely to die, even in hospitals, compared to their non-residents counterparts during most of the pandemic. Further data collection and analysis are needed to guarantee that this is solely/mainly due to nursing home status.
Code
Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections