Alcohol-Related Deaths of US Health Care Workers

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 1;7(5):e2410248. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.10248.

Authors

Mark Olfson¹, Candace M Cosgrove², Melanie M Wall¹, Carlos Blanco³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.
² Census Bureau, Mortality Research Group, Suitland, Maryland.
³ Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study investigates the risk of alcohol-related death among US health care workers compared with non–health care workers.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Alcohol Drinking / adverse effects
Alcohol Drinking / epidemiology
Alcohol Drinking / mortality
Cause of Death
Female
Health Personnel* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
United States / epidemiology