Association of Health Care Factors With Excess Deaths Not Assigned to COVID-19 in the US

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Sep 1;4(9):e2125287. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.25287.

Authors

Andrew C Stokes¹, Dielle J Lundberg¹, Jacob Bor^{1

2}, Irma T Elo³, Katherine Hempstead⁴, Samuel H Preston³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses health care factors associated with excess deaths not assigned to COVID-19 in US counties in 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / complications*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
Mortality / trends*
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

R01 AG060115/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States