Covid-19 as occupational disease in healthcare workers: a brief review of cases in the Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
| Sep 28, 2021
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Article Category: Original article (short communication)
Published Online: Sep 28, 2021
Page range: 240 - 243
Received: Jan 01, 2021
Accepted: Sep 01, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3520
© 2021 Hrvoje Lalić, published by Sciendo
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Distribution of COVID-19 symptoms by department
| Departments | No. of cases | Temperature | Cough | Chills | No smell | No taste | Intestinal symptoms | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (37.1-37.2 °C) | Moderate (38-39 °C) | High (>39 °C) | |||||||
| Surgery | 17 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 |
| Emergency | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anaesthesiology | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Transfusion medicine | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Internal medicine | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Oncology | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Microbiology | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Radiology | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dermatology | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Services | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Other* | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Characteristics of COVID-19 in healthcare workers at the Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka. Croatia (from 1 June to 31 December 2020)
| Departments | No. of cases | COVID-19 incidence (%) | Men (N) | Women (N) | Age (years) mean±SD | Sick leave (days) mean±SD | COVID-19 symptom severity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No symptoms | Mild | Moderate | |||||||
| N (%) of cases | |||||||||
| Surgery | 17 | 5.9 | 3 | 14 | 51.1±9.5 | 18.1±10.2 | 0 | (64.711 ) | 6 (35.3) |
| Emergency | 7 | 5.7 | 6 | 1 | 32.3±4.3** | 18.0±8.3 | 3 (42.9) | 3 (42.9) | 1 (14.3) |
| Anaesthesiology | 9 | 4.1 | 3 | 6 | 37.8±13.1 | 13.0±9.8 | 0 | 8 (88.9) | 1 (11.1) |
| Transfusion medicine | 6 | 6.8 | 0 | 6 | 34.2±11.3 | 13.2±4.4 | 2 (33.3) | 4 (66.7) | 0 |
| Internal medicine | 10 | 13.0 | 1 | 9 | 50.1±9.8 | 14.0±4.4 | 2 (20) | 6 (60.0) | 2 (20.0) |
| Oncology | 11 | 16.2 | 0 | 11 | 45.7±14.7 | 10.8±4.0 | 0 | 5 (45.5) | 6 (54.5) |
| Microbiology | 8 | 25.0 | 0 | 8 | 37.6±13.8 | 12.4±4.0 | 0 | 8 (100) | 0 |
| Radiology | 12 | 5.8 | 7 | 5 | 41.3±11.4 | 13.1±8.6 | 0 | 7 (58.3) | 5 (41.7) |
| Dermatology | 5 | 11.4 | 2 | 3 | 50.0±12.7 | 10.2±1.1 | 0 | 5 (100) | 0 |
| Services | 9 | 9.4 | 5 | 4 | 46.3±12.2 | 16.1±5.3 | 0 | 5 (55.6) | 4 (44.4) |
| Other* | 6 | 4.6 | 0 | 6 | 48.8±9.5 | 11.0±4.5 | 3 (50) | 1 (16.7) | 2 (33.3) |