By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, February 4, 2020
Female physicians were more likely to die by suicide than women in the general population in recent decades, but the same trend was not observed among male doctors, according to a meta-analysis of nine British and U.S. studies.
Compared with the general population, female physicians had a significantly higher suicide mortality ratio (SMR) from the 1980s to date (1.46, 95% CI 1.02-1.91), reported Dante Duarte, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.
However, male physicians had a lower SMR than a matched group of the general population across the same time period (0.67, 95% CI 0.55-0.79), they wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.
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