ReviewInternational journal of epidemiology2022
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021.
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- Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2022.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Regional excess mortality in France during COVID-19 pandemic: the first three epidemic periods (March 2020-June 2021).European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Excess Mortality Calculations to Assess the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Concepts and Methodological Issues.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Age at death during the Covid-19 lockdown in French metropolitan regions: a non parametric quantile regression approach.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Making sense of national and international disparities in excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Excess mortality in adults from Sao Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: analyses of all-cause and noncommunicable diseases mortality.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Australia, 2020-22.International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Age and sex differences in cause-specific excess mortality and years of life lost associated with COVID-19 infection in the Swedish population.European journal of public health · 2023Observational
- Long-Term Outcomes of Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Levobupivacaine Wound Infiltration or Diclofenac for Postoperative Pain Relief.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- The contribution of population age-sex structure to the excess mortality estimates of 2020-2021 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Policies on children and schools during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Western Europe.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- The Swedish COVID-19 control measures and the national commission report.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2023Article
- Assessing COVID-19-Related Excess Mortality Using Multiple Approaches-Italy, 2020-2021.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundExcess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic is of major scientific and political interest.
methodsWe critically reviewed different estimates of all-cause excess mortality for the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), which have been much studied during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the latest register data to discuss uncertainties and implications.
resultsWe show using back-calculation of expected deaths from Nordic all-cause deaths that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model is a clear outlier in the compared estimates and likely substantially overestimates excess mortality of Finland and Denmark, and probably Sweden. Our review suggests a range of total Nordic excess deaths of perhaps 15 000-20 000, but results are sensitive to assumptions in the models as shown.
conclusionsWe document substantial heterogeneity and uncertainty in estimates of excess mortality. All estimates should be taken with caution in their interpretation as they miss detailed account of demographics, such as changes in the age group populations over the study period.
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