{"id":13632,"date":"2021-01-05T01:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/\/2021\/01\/05\/evaluation-of-health-care-workers-with-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:21:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:21:22","slug":"evaluation-of-health-care-workers-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/evaluation-of-health-care-workers-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Health Care Workers With COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Objective<\/strong>: In this study, we aimed to determine the contact risk levels of infected health care workers for patients with COVID-19 and to evaluate their disease status.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods<\/strong>: Health care workers with COVID-19 were analyzed, retrospectively. Close contact with patients was classified as high, medium, low-risk or risk-free contact according to the use of personal protective equipment, and transmission levels were evaluated. Symptoms and disease severity after infection were determined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong>: A total of 82 health care workers were infected during the study period, and only 2% had high-risk contact status. There was risk-free contact in 71% of the patients. Community\/family-borne contaminations were detected as the main source of transmission. 82% of the infected health care workers have developed at least one symptom. Fever (65%) and dry cough (54%) were more common symptoms. According to their clinical severity, 66% of them had mild illness. Only one had severe illness. All the health care workers with COVID-19 recovered and were discharged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong>: Health care workers are at increased risk of COVID-19 transmission. In addition to the use of appropriate personal protective equipment, masks and social distance rules should be followed in social settings.<\/p>\n<p>Klimik Dergisi 2020; 33(3): 230-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cite this article as<\/strong>: Eren E, \u00c7elik \u0130, Y\u0131ld\u0131z M, et al. [Evaluation of health care workers with COVID-19]. Klimik Derg. 2020; 33(3): 230-4. Turkish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine the contact risk levels of infected health care workers for patients with COVID-19 and to evaluate their disease status. Methods: Health care workers with COVID-19 were analyzed, retrospectively. Close contact with patients was classified as high, medium, low-risk or risk-free contact according to the use of personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5019,3676,5123,5121],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-covid19","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-nosocomial-transmission","tag-personal-protective-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}