SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers: a retrospective analysis and model study

Bai, Yansen; Wang, Xuan; Huang, Qimin; Wang, Han; Gurarie, David; Ndeffo-Mbah, Martial L.; Fan, Fei; Fu, Peng; Horn, Mary Ann; Xu, Shuai; Mondal, Anirban; Jiang, Xiaobing; Zhao, Hongyang

doi:10.1101/2020.03.29.20047159

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“…This study revealed chances of getting infected were more among patients in ICU than inpatients, but the difference was not statistically signi cant. In contrast, Wuhan's study showed that physicians working in ICU had two times more chances of getting infected than the general wards [23]. This difference could be due to the lower number of respondents had been working in ICU in our study.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…From this nding, it seems that the physicians in Bangladesh were affected at a relatively younger age. At Wuhan, relatively older-aged physicians were affected with COVID-19, and the age difference between infected and uninfected physicians was signi cant [23]. However, in our study, no statistically signi cant difference was found regarding the age among these two groups.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…We found male physicians had increased odds of being infected, though it was not statistically signi cant. This sex difference was not statistically signi cant in the study at Wuhan as well [23]. However, female physicians were affected with COVID-19 2.5 times more than their male colleagues in the USA [7].…”

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confidence: 67%

“…A study conducted on physicians in the USA showed that the median age of physicians being affected was 42 years [7]. Another study conducted in Wuhan, China, revealed the mean age of the affected physicians being 37 years [23]. From this nding, it seems that the physicians in Bangladesh were affected at a relatively younger age.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread among Physicians in Bangladesh: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Comparative Study

Khalil¹,

Alam

Arefin

et al. 2020

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ObjectiveThis study aims to determine the role of personal protective measures in the prevention of COVID-19 spread among the physicians working at different health facilities in Bangladesh.MethodsThis hospital-based cross-sectional comparative was conducted from May to June 2020. A total of 98 COVID-19 positive physicians and 92 COVID-19 negative physicians (physicians having no symptoms of COVID-19 or tested negative), were enrolled. The questionnaire was adapted from a tool developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of COVID-19. Data was collected from the respondents online using google forms.ResultsThere was no significant difference in baseline information between COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative physicians. The physicians, who were unaware of direct participation in COVID-19 patient care, had higher odds of being COVID-19 positive (OR= 4.018; CI: 1.532-10.535). Also, the physicians, who were unaware of the COVID-19 status while performing aerosol generated procedure (AGP), had a higher chance of being COVID-19 positive, had a higher chance of being COVID-19 positive (OR= 2.522; CI: 1.020-6.233). Using face shields/goggles (OR=0.437; CI:0.228-0.837), regular decontamination of the patient’s surroundings (OR=0.392; CI:0.176-0.873) while usual take care of patients and use of N95 masks while performing AGP (OR=0.372; CI:0.159-0.873) had protective roles against COVID-19 among the physicians. The physicians who had reused the medical gown had two times more chance of being tested positive for COVID-19 than those who had not reused it (OR= 2.3; CI:1.251-4.259).ConclusionThe use of face shield/goggles and N95 masks and decontamination of the patient’s surroundings may give protection against COVID-19. Also, reusing medical gown should be avoided as much as possible.

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Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread among Physicians in Bangladesh: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Comparative Study

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Alam

Arefin

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“…A study conducted on physicians in the USA showed that the median age of physicians being affected was 42 years [7]. Another study conducted in Wuhan, China, revealed that the mean age of the affected physicians was 37 years [23]. From this finding, it seems that the physicians in Bangladesh were affected at a relatively younger age.…”

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Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread Among Physicians in Bangladesh: a Multicenter Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Khalil¹,

Alam

Arefin

et al. 2020

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This study aims to determine the role of personal protective measures in the prevention of COVID-19 spread among the physicians working at different health facilities in Bangladesh. This hospital-based cross-sectional comparative study was conducted from May to June 2020. A total of 98 COVID-19 positive physicians and 92 COVID-19 negative physicians (physicians with no symptoms of COVID-19 or who tested negative) were enrolled. The questionnaire was adapted from a tool developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for risk assessment and management of exposure of healthcare workers in the context of COVID-19. Data were collected from the respondents online using Google forms. There was no significant difference in baseline information between COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative physicians. The physicians, who were unaware of direct participation in COVID-19 patient care, had higher odds of being COVID-19 positive (OR = 4.018; CI: 1.532–10.535). Additionally, the physicians, who were unaware of the COVID-19 status while performing the aerosol-generated procedure (AGP), had a higher chance of being COVID-19 positive (OR = 2.522; CI: 1.020–6.233). Using face shields/goggles (OR = 0.437; CI:0.228–0.837) and regular decontamination of the patient’s surroundings (OR = 0.392; CI:0.176–0.873) while usual take care of patients and use of N95 masks while performing AGP (OR = 0.372; CI:0.159–0.873) had protective roles against COVID-19 among the physicians. The physicians who had reused the medical gown had two times more chances of being tested positive for COVID-19 than those who had not reused it (OR = 2.3; CI:1.251–4.259). The use of face shields/goggles and N95 masks and decontamination of the patient’s surroundings may give protection against COVID-19. Additionally, reusing medical gowns should be avoided as much as possible.

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Impact of coronavirus syndromes on physical and mental health of health care workers: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Pablo

Vaquerizo‐Serrano

Catalán

et al. 2020

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers: a retrospective analysis and model study

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread among Physicians in Bangladesh: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Comparative Study

Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread among Physicians in Bangladesh: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Comparative Study

Role of Personal Protective Measures in Prevention of COVID-19 Spread Among Physicians in Bangladesh: a Multicenter Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Impact of coronavirus syndromes on physical and mental health of health care workers: Systematic review and meta-analysis

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