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An Evaluation of the Vulnerable Physician Workforce in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic

2020-03-30 health policy Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic threatens to overwhelm the healthcare resources of the country, but also poses a personal hazard to healthcare workers, including physicians. To address the potential impact of excluding physicians with a high risk of adverse outcomes based on age, we evaluated the current patterns of age of licensed physicians across the United States. MethodsWe compiled information from the 2018 database of actively licensed physicians in the Federation...

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