Impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic among health care workers in a secondary teaching hospital in Spain

Autor: Daniel Lopez Lacomba, Jeronimo Jaqueti Aroca, Javier Garralda Fernandez, Rosa Lillo Rodríguez, Cristina Hernández, Alfredo Bermejo Rodríguez, Eva Sánchez Testillano, Isabel Torres, Elda Isabel Colino Romay, Isabel García Arata, Laura Moratilla Monzo, Ignacio Molero Vilches, María Santiaga Pacheco Delgado, Luis Mazón Cuadrado, Laura Molina Esteban, Jesús García-Martínez, Luis J. Morales García, Elva Nieto-Borrajo, Santiago Prieto Menchero
Přispěvatelé: Servicio de Análisis Clínicos. Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Servicio de Medicina Preventiva. Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Servicio de Salud Laboral. Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
RNA viruses
Male
Viral Diseases
Longitudinal study
Pulmonology
Coronaviruses
Epidemiology
Cross-sectional study
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Occupational safety and health
Serology
Cohort Studies
Medical Conditions
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Health care
Pandemic
Medical Personnel
030212 general & internal medicine
Hospitales de Enseñanza
Pathology and laboratory medicine
Virus Testing
Pandemias
Factores de Riesgo
Multidisciplinary
Medical microbiology
Middle Aged
SARS Virus
Professions
Infectious Diseases
Viruses
Workforce
Medicine
Female
SARS CoV 2
Pathogens
Research Article
Cohort study
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
SARS coronavirus
Science
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Health Personnel
Estudios Transversales
Surveillance Methods
Microbiology
Teaching hospital
Respiratory Disorders
03 medical and health sciences
Diagnostic Medicine
medicine
Humans
Hospitals
Teaching
Pandemics
Medicine and health sciences
Biology and life sciences
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Personal de Salud
Organisms
Viral pathogens
COVID-19
Covid 19
Microbial pathogens
Cross-Sectional Studies
Spain
Medical Risk Factors
Family medicine
People and Places
Respiratory Infections
Population Groupings
business
Zdroj: Repositorio Institucional de la Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid
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PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 1, p e0245001 (2021)
PLoS ONE
Popis: Background The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a huge challenge to healthcare systems and their personnel worldwide. The study of the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers (HCW), through prevalence studies, will let us know viral expansion, individuals at most risk and the most exposed areas in healthcare organizations. The aim of this study is to gauge the impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in our hospital workforce and identify groups and areas at increased risk. Methods and findings This is a cross-sectional and incidence study carried out on healthcare workers based on molecular and serological diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Of the 3013 HCW invited to participate, 2439 (80.9%) were recruited, including 674 (22.4%) who had previously consulted at the Occupational Health Service (OHS) for confirmed exposure and/or presenting symptoms suggestive of COVID-19. A total of 411 (16.9%) and 264 (10.8%) healthcare workers were SARS-CoV-2 IgG and rRT-PCR positive, respectively. The cumulative prevalence considering all studies (IgG positive HCW and/or rRT-PCR positive detection) was 485 (19.9%). SARS-CoV-2 IgG-positive patients in whom the virus was not detected were 221 (9.1%); up to 151 of them (68.3%) did not report any compatible symptoms nor consult at the OHS for this reason. Men became more infected than women (25% vs 18.5%, p = 0.0009), including when data were also classified by age. COVID-19 cumulative prevalence among the HCW assigned to medical departments was higher (25.2%) than others, as well as among medical staff (25.4%) compared with other professional categories (p Conclusions The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HCW of our centre has been 19.9%. Doctors and medical services personnel have had the highest prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but many of them have not presented compatible symptoms. This emphasizes the performance of continuous surveillance methods of the most exposed health personnel and not only based on the appearance of symptoms.
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