COVID-19 outpatient management: Shorter time to recovery in Healthcare workers according to an electronic daily symptoms assessment - 20/02/21
Bienvenido a EM-consulte, la referencia de los profesionales de la salud.
Artículo gratuito.
Conéctese para beneficiarse!
Highlights |
• | COVID-19 outcomes are favorable in patients eligible for outpatient care. |
• | Individuals with mild symptoms of COVID-19 could be treated at home. |
• | The median time to recovery was 9 days after symptoms onset. |
• | Median time to recovery from symptoms onset was shorter in healthcare workers than in non-healthcare workers. |
• | At day 7, more than the half of the individuals reported no symptoms. |
Abstract |
Objectives |
Our aim is to compare the course of the disease between healthcare workers (HCWs) and non-HCWs suffering from covid-19 and eligible for outpatient management.
Methods |
Single-center prospective cohort of outpatients with covid-19, diagnosed between the 10th March and the 2nd April, 2020 with a daily collection of symptoms by an on-line auto-questionnaire.
Results |
A total of 186 patients were included (median age, 41 years [interquartile range, 19–78 years]; 74.2% female), of whom 132 (71%) were HCWs. The median follow-up after symptom onset was 14 (min 4–max 24) days. HCWs were significantly younger than non-HCWs (median age 40.3 years vs. 47.2 years [P<0.005]), and 81.8% were women. Four patients (2.2%) were hospitalized including one HCW. The median time to recovery was 9 days after symptom onset (95% CI 8-11) in the global population and respectively 8 (95% CI 8–9) and 13 (95% CI 11–15) days in HCWs and in non-HCWs (P<0.005). After adjusting for age, co-morbidities, and gender, the instantaneous risk ratio for symptom absence in HCWs was 1.76 compared with non-HCWs (95% CI [1.16–2.67], P=0.037).
Conclusion |
HCWs suffering from covid-19 had favorable outcomes and had a shorter time to recovery than non HCWs.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Keywords : Covid-19, Outpatient, Healthcare workers, Healthcare professionals, Outcomes
Esquema
Vol 51 - N° 1
P. 71-76 - février 2021 Regresar al número
Artículo precedente
- HLA Class II alleles and association with HPV Infection prevalence in high-risk HPV-positive Han women in southern China
- Zhongzheng Zheng, Qingqing He, Lin An, Daiyang Li, Ningjuan Wang, Liping Wang, Qin Sun, Jian Wang, Peili Xiao, Keming Du, Boan Li
- Bacteria which are highly resistant to antibiotics are not resistant hydro-alcoholic products
- C. Ciotti, B. Ferrao, I. Garrigues, S. Nérome
Bienvenido a EM-consulte, la referencia de los profesionales de la salud.