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Health inequities impact healthcare delivery and outcomes, but the impacts of health inequities on antibiotic use and AR infections have been less frequently studied in nursing home residents. Nursing home residents are typically older, often have increased care needs requiring frequent contact with staff, and often have comorbidities or in-dwelling devices that make them vulnerable to infection. The community served by a nursing home may play a role in frequency and variability in antibiotic use, as health inequities may impact healthcare delivery and health status of patients, since both patients and caregivers are likely to be drawn from the surrounding community. We hypothesize that antibiotic use in nursing homes is impacted by the social vulnerability of the surrounding community.

We collected all reports of the proportion of residents who received …