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COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in southwest Iran

OBJECTIVE: With the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact on the healthcare system and workers cannot be overlooked. However, studies on the infection status of medical personnel are still lacking. It is imperative to ensure the safety of health-care workers (HCWs) not only to safeguard continuous...

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Autores principales: Sabetian, Golnar, Moghadami, Mohsen, Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi, Leila, Shahriarirad, Reza, Fallahi, Mohammad Javad, Asmarian, Naeimehossadat, Moeini, Yalda Sadat
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7968574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33731169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01532-0
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author Sabetian, Golnar
Moghadami, Mohsen
Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi, Leila
Shahriarirad, Reza
Fallahi, Mohammad Javad
Asmarian, Naeimehossadat
Moeini, Yalda Sadat
author_facet Sabetian, Golnar
Moghadami, Mohsen
Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi, Leila
Shahriarirad, Reza
Fallahi, Mohammad Javad
Asmarian, Naeimehossadat
Moeini, Yalda Sadat
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description OBJECTIVE: With the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact on the healthcare system and workers cannot be overlooked. However, studies on the infection status of medical personnel are still lacking. It is imperative to ensure the safety of health-care workers (HCWs) not only to safeguard continuous patient care but also to ensure they do not transmit the virus, therefore evaluation of infection rates in these groups are indicated. METHODS: Demographic and clinical data regarding infected cases among HCWs of Fars, Iran with positive SARS‐CoV‐2 PCR tests were obtained from 10th March to 17th May 2020. RESULTS: Our data demonstrated a rate of 5.62% (273 out of 4854 cases) infection among HCW, with a mean age of 35 years and a dominance of female cases (146 cases: 53.5%). The majority of infected cases were among nurses (51.3%), while the most case infection rate (CIR) was among physicians (27 positive cases out of 842 performed test (3.2%)). Also, the highest rate of infection was in the emergency rooms (30.6%). Also, 35.5% of the patients were asymptomatic and the most frequent clinical features among symptomatic patients were myalgia (46%) and cough (45.5%). Although 5.5% were admitted to hospitals, there were no reports of ICU admission. Furthermore, 10.3% of the cases reported transmitting the infection to family and friends. Regarding safety precautions, 1.6% didn't wear masks and 18.7% didn't use gloves in work environments. CONCLUSION: HCWs are among the highest groups at risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic; therefore, evaluating infection rates and associated features is necessary to improve and adjust protective measures of these vulnerable, yet highly essential group. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12985-021-01532-0.
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spelling pubmed-79685742021-03-18 COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in southwest Iran Sabetian, Golnar Moghadami, Mohsen Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi, Leila Shahriarirad, Reza Fallahi, Mohammad Javad Asmarian, Naeimehossadat Moeini, Yalda Sadat Virol J Research OBJECTIVE: With the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact on the healthcare system and workers cannot be overlooked. However, studies on the infection status of medical personnel are still lacking. It is imperative to ensure the safety of health-care workers (HCWs) not only to safeguard continuous patient care but also to ensure they do not transmit the virus, therefore evaluation of infection rates in these groups are indicated. METHODS: Demographic and clinical data regarding infected cases among HCWs of Fars, Iran with positive SARS‐CoV‐2 PCR tests were obtained from 10th March to 17th May 2020. RESULTS: Our data demonstrated a rate of 5.62% (273 out of 4854 cases) infection among HCW, with a mean age of 35 years and a dominance of female cases (146 cases: 53.5%). The majority of infected cases were among nurses (51.3%), while the most case infection rate (CIR) was among physicians (27 positive cases out of 842 performed test (3.2%)). Also, the highest rate of infection was in the emergency rooms (30.6%). Also, 35.5% of the patients were asymptomatic and the most frequent clinical features among symptomatic patients were myalgia (46%) and cough (45.5%). Although 5.5% were admitted to hospitals, there were no reports of ICU admission. Furthermore, 10.3% of the cases reported transmitting the infection to family and friends. Regarding safety precautions, 1.6% didn't wear masks and 18.7% didn't use gloves in work environments. CONCLUSION: HCWs are among the highest groups at risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic; therefore, evaluating infection rates and associated features is necessary to improve and adjust protective measures of these vulnerable, yet highly essential group. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12985-021-01532-0. BioMed Central 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7968574/ /pubmed/33731169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01532-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Moghadami, Mohsen
Hashemizadeh Fard Haghighi, Leila
Shahriarirad, Reza
Fallahi, Mohammad Javad
Asmarian, Naeimehossadat
Moeini, Yalda Sadat
COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in southwest Iran
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title_sort covid-19 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in southwest iran
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7968574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33731169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01532-0
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