Competence Center for Epidemiology and Health Services Research for Healthcare Professionals (CVcare), Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Nursing (IVDP), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
Department for Occupational Medicine, Hazardous Substances and Health Sciences (AGG), Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services (BGW), 22089 Hamburg, Germany.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 31;18(17):9185. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179185.
This is an update of our report on COVID-19 among health and social welfare workers in Germany. Workers' compensation claims for occupational diseases (OD) are recorded in a standardized database of the Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services (BGW). We analyzed which workers in the health and welfare sector are most often affected by COVID-19. For the different sectors in healthcare and welfare, the number of full-time workers is known (FTW), allowing for calculation of claim rates by sector. The period for data presentation was extended to 3 May 2021 for this update. The cumulative number of COVID-19 claims increased from 4398 by May 2020 to 84,728 by May 2021. The majority of claims concern nursing homes (39.5%) and hospitals (37.6%). Nursing is the profession most often concerned (68.8%). Relative to the number of workers, the claim rate is highest for hospitals (41.3/1000 FTW). Seventy-seven workers died (0.09%) and three hundred and seventy-five (0.4%) were hospitalized. A total of 65,693 (77.5%) claims were assessed, and for 81.4% of these claims, the OD was confirmed. The number of health and welfare workers affected by COVID-19 is high. With most HW vaccinated by now in Germany, within the next few weeks or months, the number of new cases should decrease.
这是我们关于德国卫生和社会福利工作者中 COVID-19 的报告的更新。工人的职业病（OD）赔偿要求是在法定事故保险和卫生与福利服务预防的标准化数据库（BGW）中记录的。我们分析了卫生和福利部门中哪些工人最常受到 COVID-19 的影响。对于医疗保健和福利的不同部门，全职工人的数量是已知的（FTW），允许按部门计算索赔率。本次更新将数据呈现的期限延长至 2021 年 5 月 3 日。COVID-19 索赔的累计数量从 2020 年 5 月的 4398 例增加到 2021 年 5 月的 84728 例。大多数索赔涉及养老院（39.5%）和医院（37.6%）。护理是最常涉及的职业（68.8%）。相对于工人人数，医院的索赔率最高（41.3/1000 FTW）。有 77 名工人死亡（0.09%），375 名工人住院（0.4%）。共有 65693 例（77.5%）索赔得到评估，其中 81.4%的索赔被确认为 OD。受 COVID-19 影响的卫生和福利工作者人数众多。由于德国现在大多数 HW 都已接种疫苗，在接下来的几周或几个月内，新病例的数量应该会减少。
