Baseline Characteristics
A total of 349 physicians completed the survey. Of these, 165
[47.3%] were residents, and 184 [52.7%] were attending
physicians, of which 12 were fellows. 1614 otolaryngology residents and
2849 otolaryngology fellows and attendings work at the academic
institutions contacted, based on review of each institution’s website.
Thus, our response rate is 10.22% for residents and 6.46% for
attendings, though these may be underestimates as we do not know whether
all programs ultimately dispersed the survey to their physicians.Table 1 lists the demographic variables for the entire
population. Most participants were men (212 [60.7%]), and the most
common age range was 31-35 years (114 [32.7%]). Our male to female
breakdown is consistent with that of the otolaryngology population,
where 63.9% of residents and 85% of attendings are estimated to be
males.32,33 126 (36.1%) participants worked in the
Midwest, 107 (30.7%) worked in the Northeast, 75 (21.5%) in the South,
and 41 (11.7%) in the West. The majority came from states projected to
reach their peak resource use during the study period (205
[58.7%]). 54.2% of participants came from states estimated to have
greater than 20,000 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, and 54.2% came
from states estimated to have greater than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths.