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Observational studyJournal of emergency nursing2021

A Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Hospital in Turkey.

Berkant Öztürk, Sema Öztürk, Ahmet Çağlar, İlker Kaçer, Muhammet Hacımustafaoğlu, Kemal Öztürk

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Observational study in Journal of emergency nursing, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 52% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Berkant Öztürk
Sema Öztürk
Ahmet Çağlar
İlker Kaçer
Muhammet Hacımustafaoğlu
Kemal Öztürk
Aksaray University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSeveral vaccines have been developed and approved for use against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2; however, the use of personal protective equipment remains important owing to the lack of effective specific treatment and whole community immunity. Hydroxychloroquine sulfate was a treatment option in the early days of the pandemic; however, it was subsequently removed owing to a lack of evidence as an effective treatment. We aimed to evaluate the testing and infection characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 among health care personnel and determine the effectiveness of prophylactic hydroxychloroquine sulfate use to prevent transmission.

methodsThis retrospective observational study was conducted between May 1 and September 30, 2020. The health care personnel included in the study were physicians, nurses, and paraprofessional support personnel. The health records of health care personnel who had been tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 using polymerase chain reaction were retrospectively analyzed.

resultsIn total, 508 health care personnel were included in the study. A total of 152 (29.9%) health care personnel were diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019. The positive polymerase chain reaction rate was 80.3% (n = 122). A comparison of infected and uninfected health care personnel showed a difference in age and occupation and no difference in sex, working area, and prophylactic hydroxychloroquine sulfate use. DISCUSSION: Protective measures in low-risk areas of our hospital require improvements. All health care personnel should be trained on personal protective equipment use. There was no evidence to support the effectiveness of prophylactic hydroxychloroquine sulfate against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 transmission.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsPersonnel, HospitalCOVID-19 TestingHumansInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalPersonal Protective EquipmentRetrospective StudiesTertiary Care CentersTurkeyCoronavirus disease 2019Health care personnelHydroxychloroquine sulfatePersonal protective equipmentSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Identifiers

PMID34294455
PMCPMC8006193
OpenAlexW3147669048

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