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Exposure risk and COVID-19 infection among frontline health-care workers: A single tertiary care centre experience.

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العنوان: Exposure risk and COVID-19 infection among frontline health-care workers: A single tertiary care centre experience.
المؤلفون: Vargese SS; Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India., Dev SS; Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India., Soman A S; Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India., Kurian N; Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India., Varghese V A; Department of General Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India., Mathew E; Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India.
المصدر: Clinical epidemiology and global health [Clin Epidemiol Glob Health] 2022 Jan-Feb; Vol. 13, pp. 100933. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 13.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd Country of Publication: India NLM ID: 101608821 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 2452-0918 (Print) Linking ISSN: 22133984 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Clin Epidemiol Glob Health Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: [New Delhi, India] : Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd., c2013-
مستخلص: Background: There is limited data on frontline health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 from the developing nations. It is imperative to identify those at higher risk to prevent further transmission. We assessed the relationship between exposure risk and COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers who were primary contacts of a COVID-19 patient.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among front-line health-care workers in a tertiary care hospital who were exposed to a COVID-19 patient. Information on demographic factors, medical history, exposure related factors and subsequently COVID-19 lab reports were collected. An exposure risk assessment designed collating various exposure related factors categorized the participants into those with high and low risk. We used logistic regression to estimate the odds ratio of our primary outcome, a positive COVID-19 test when the independent variables were exposure risk, age, gender and occupation.
Results: Among1858 frontline workers who were primary contacts of a COVID-19 patient at the hospital, 106 (5.7%) incident reports of a positive COVID-19 test were recorded. None of the exposure related factors had any significant association with a positive COVID-19 test. However, high exposure risk category was significantly associated with COVID-19 positive test at the end of quarantine.
Conclusion: COVID-19 was more frequent among front-line health-care workers who belonged to high exposure category. Education at different levels of service delivery at hospitals is required for best practice in order to prevent COVID-19 among health care providers. There is need to develop additional strategies to ensure that the information is translated in to practice.
Competing Interests: Nil.
(© 2021 The Authors.)
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فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: COVID-19; Contact tracing; Exposure; Frontline health-care workers; Risk category
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20211220 Latest Revision: 20230612
رمز التحديث: 20230612
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC8667559
DOI: 10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100933
PMID: 34926869
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:2452-0918
DOI:10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100933