Despite higher COVID risk, active physicians had lower excess mortality than nonactive physicians Mortality Coronavirus Disease COVID ExcessMortality JAMAInternalMed StanfordMed AmerMedicalAssn USC
By Neha MathurFeb 8 2023Reviewed by Aimee Molineux They used data from the American Medical Association for this analysis.
Background In the USA, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 -triggered pandemic has claimed over one million excess lives so far, i.e., the difference between the actual and expected deaths over a prespecified period. Physicians played a crucial role in providing care to COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic, especially in the first year.
About the study In the present study, researchers screened the AMA data to determine mortality among US physicians in the age group of 45 to 84 years between January 2016 and February 2020. They estimated expected deaths between March 2020 and December 2021 to calculate excess deaths among these physicians. They compared these estimates with excess deaths in the US general population.
Results & conclusion The US physician population screened during the study comprised 34.7% and 65.3% of females and males, respectively. Between March 2020 and December 2021, 622 more deaths than expected occurred among a monthly mean of 785631 physicians, corresponding to 43 excess deaths per 100000 person-years.
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