{"id":6662,"date":"2020-05-06T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:26:57","slug":"epidemiology-of-and-risk-factors-for-coronavirus-infection-in-health-care-workers-a-living-rapid-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/epidemiology-of-and-risk-factors-for-coronavirus-infection-in-health-care-workers-a-living-rapid-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Infection in Health Care Workers: A Living Rapid Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">paper reviews\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">64 studies examin<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the burden of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV\u00a0on health care workers (HCWs) and risk factors for infection. HCWs\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">accounted for a significant proportion of coronavirus infections and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">commonly experienced depression, anxiety, and psychological distress during the outbreak. PPE use and infection control training are associated with decreased risk<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ertain exposures (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e.g.,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">involvement in intubations, direct patient contact, or contact with bodily secretions) are associated with increased risk<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chou et al. (May 5, 2020). Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Infection in Health Care Workers: A Living Rapid Review.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Annals of internal medicine.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-1632\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-1632<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0paper reviews\u00a064 studies examining\u00a0the burden of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV\u00a0on health care workers (HCWs) and risk factors for infection. HCWs\u00a0accounted for a significant proportion of coronavirus infections and\u00a0commonly experienced depression, anxiety, and psychological distress during the outbreak. PPE use and infection control training are associated with decreased risk\u00a0of infection. Certain exposures&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/epidemiology-of-and-risk-factors-for-coronavirus-infection-in-health-care-workers-a-living-rapid-review\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}