The Frontline War: A Case-control study of risk factors for COVID-19 among health care workers

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Hence ' 'understanding the risk factors that the HCWs are exposed to and strategically protecting them ' 'is of paramount importance.</ns4:p><ns4:p> Methods:</ns4:p><ns4:p> A case-control ' 'retrospective study was carried out on 116 HCWs at a tertiary care hospital treating COVID-19 ' 'patients in South India. We attempted to investigate and stratify the specific risk factors ' 'for COVID-19 transmission among HCWs. Data was collected regarding their exposure to COVID-19 ' 'patients, infection control precautions used, possible breaches in the protocol, and details ' 'of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) prophylaxis.</ns4:p><ns4:p> Results:</ns4:p><ns4:p> The ' 'demographics were equally distributed among the cases and controls. Exposure to surgical ' 'procedures on suspected/positive COVID patients was also found to affect contracting the ' 'COVID-19 illness. HCWs who wore face shields instead of eye goggles along with the use of ' 'scrubs and hospital gowns were found to have a lesser incidence of COVID-19 ' 'illness.</ns4:p><ns4:p> Conclusion:</ns4:p><ns4:p> This study helped us understand the varied ' 'risk factors that health care workers are exposed to while treating COVID-19 patients. It ' 'helped us contextualize and strategize our infection control practices to prevent further ' 'morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19.</ns4:p>', 'DOI': '10.12688/f1000research.109023.1', 'type': 'journal-article', 'created': { 'date-parts': [[2022, 11, 14]], 'date-time': '2022-11-14T14:30:16Z', 'timestamp': 1668436216000}, 'page': '1298', 'update-policy': 'http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.crossmark-policy', 'source': 'Crossref', 'is-referenced-by-count': 0, 'title': 'The Frontline War: A Case-control study of risk factors for COVID-19 among health care workers', 'prefix': '10.12688', 'volume': '11', 'author': [ { 'ORCID': 'http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7026-2474', 'authenticated-orcid': False, 'given': 'Cynthia Amrutha', 'family': 'Sukumar', 'sequence': 'first', 'affiliation': []}, { 'given': 'Nandakrishna', 'family': 'Bolanthakodi', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Aarthi', 'family': 'Venkatramanan', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Ravishankar', 'family': 'Nagraj', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}, {'given': 'Sudha', 'family': 'Vidyasagar', 'sequence': 'additional', 'affiliation': []}], 'member': '2560', 'published-online': {'date-parts': [[2022, 11, 14]]}, 'reference': [ { 'key': 'ref1', 'doi-asserted-by': 'publisher', 'first-page': '533-534', 'DOI': '10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1', 'article-title': 'An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real-time.', 'volume': '20', 'author': 'E Dong', 'year': '2020', 'journal-title': 'Lancet Infect. 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