COVID-19 outpatient management: Shorter time to recovery in Healthcare workers according to an electronic daily symptoms assessment.
Infect Dis Now
; 51(1): 71-76, 2021 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-837298
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.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Outpatients
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Health Personnel
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Symptom Assessment
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Dis Now
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.medmal.2020.10.001
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