Windorfer A, Seiker W, Stroscher J
Offentl Gesundheitswes. 1989 Mar;51(3):118-21.
We analysed the incidence of hepatitis among members of the medical profession (doctors, dental surgeons, nurses and medical assistants) by extracting the relevant figures from the total number of hepatitis cases that had been reported to Lower Saxony Public Health authorities between 1976 and 1986. It was found that the incidence and hence the risk of contracting hepatitis A was two to three times higher in particular for the nursing profession than for the total population and also than for doctors and dental surgeons. Although the incidence of hepatitis B has gone down in recent years, the risk of getting infected is definitely higher for doctors, dentists and nursing staff than it is for the total population. This shows that all necessary precautionary and hygiene measures have not yet been fully observed for the members of professions engaged in health care. All persons active in health have an increased risk of being infected with hepatitis non-A-non-B, compared with the overall population. This enhanced risk of hepatitis A infection for the nursing profession and of hepatitis non-A-non-B infection for all medical staff including doctors and dentists prompts us to demand that these two types of disease should also be included in the list of professional diseases.
我们通过从1976年至1986年期间向下萨克森州公共卫生当局报告的肝炎病例总数中提取相关数据，分析了医疗行业（医生、牙科外科医生、护士和医疗助理）中肝炎的发病率。结果发现，尤其是护理行业感染甲型肝炎的发病率及因此感染的风险，比总人口以及医生和牙科外科医生高出两到三倍。尽管近年来乙型肝炎的发病率有所下降，但医生、牙医和护理人员感染的风险肯定高于总人口。这表明，从事医疗保健工作的人员尚未充分遵守所有必要的预防和卫生措施。与总体人群相比，所有从事医疗工作的人员感染非甲非乙型肝炎的风险都有所增加。护理行业感染甲型肝炎的风险增加，以及包括医生和牙医在内的所有医务人员感染非甲非乙型肝炎的风险增加，促使我们要求将这两种疾病也列入职业病名单。
