Is there an association between hospital staffing levels and inpatient-COVID-19 mortality rates?

• Mona Al-Amin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: malamin@suffolk.edu

  Affiliation Healthcare Administration, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5749-3473

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• Md. Nazmul Islam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Optum Labs, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Kate Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Information Systems and Operations Management, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Natalie Shiels,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Optum Labs, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0631-5834

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• John Buresh

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Optum Labs, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States of America

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