Background: Understanding patterns of mortality and place of death during the COVID-19
pandemic is important to help provide appropriate services and resources. Aims: To analyse …

Objective To describe the place and cause of death during the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic to assess its impact on excess mortality. Methods This national death …

Background: COVID-19 has directly and indirectly caused high mortality worldwide. Aim: To
explore patterns of mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for palliative …

Background Deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic result directly from infection and
exacerbation of other diseases and indirectly from deferment of care for other conditions …

Background Mortality from COVID-19 shows a strong relationship with age and pre-existing
medical conditions, as does mortality from other causes. We aimed to investigate how …

Background: Excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with those expected
from historical trends have been unequally distributed, both geographically and …

Background With the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) there has
been disruption to normal clinical activity in response to the increased demand on health …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire health care system,
internationally as well as in Sweden. We aimed to study excess deaths (all death causes …

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed many lives in the UK and globally. The objective of this
paper is to study whether the number of deaths not registered as Covid-19-related has …

Objective To undertake a case review of deaths in a 6-week period during the COVID-19
pandemic commencing with the first death in the hospital from COVID-19 on 12th of March …