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.