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. 2022 Jan:119:170-174.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.10.015. Epub 2021 Nov 6.

Risk of hospitalization and death for healthcare workers with COVID-19 in nine European countries, January 2020-January 2021

L Ferland  1 , C Carvalho  2 , J Gomes Dias  1 , F Lamb  1 , C Adlhoch  1 , C Suetens  1 , J Beauté  1 , P Kinross  1 , D Plachouras  1 , T Hannila-Handelberg  3 , M Fabiani  4 , F Riccardo  4 , A B van Gageldonk-Lafeber  5 , A C Teirlinck  5 , J Mossong  6 , A Vergison  6 , J Melillo  7 , T Melillo  7 , P Mook  8 , R Pebody  8 , A P Coutinho Rehse  8 , D L Monnet  1
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Risk of hospitalization and death for healthcare workers with COVID-19 in nine European countries, January 2020-January 2021

L Ferland et al. J Hosp Infect. 2022 Jan.

Abstract

This article presents and compares coronavirus disease 2019 attack rates for infection, hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death in healthcare workers (HCWs) and non-HCWs in nine European countries from 31st January 2020 to 13th January 2021. Adjusted attack rate ratios in HCWs (compared with non-HCWs) were 3.0 [95% confidence interval (CI) 2.2-4.0] for infection, 1.8 (95% CI 1.2-2.7) for hospitalization, 1.9 (95% CI 1.1-3.2) for ICU admission and 0.9 (95% CI 0.4-2.0) for death. Among hospitalized cases, the case-fatality ratio was 1.8% in HCWs and 8.2% in non-HCWs. Differences may be due to better/earlier access to treatment, differential underascertainment and the healthy worker effect.

Keywords: COVID-19; European Union/European Economic Area; Healthcare workers; Mortality; Public health surveillance.

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