Community Health Centre of Primorje-Gorski Kotar Count, Rijeka, Croatia.
University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia.
Arh Hig Rada Toksikol. 2021 Sep 28;72(3):240-243. doi: 10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3520.
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a tremendous impact on every facet of private life and work organisation in virtually all social and economic sectors worldwide. People who stand on the first line of defence are healthcare workers (HCWs) risking exposure to infected patients. However, even though they are often affected by COVID-19 and associated somatic and mental health problems, COVID-19 as a new illness was not immediately acknowledged as occupational disease. This is why several groups of HCWs contacted their occupational medicine physicians in 2020 with a request to register the infection with SARS-CoV-2 as occupational disease. In an attempt to support their appeals and show that hospital workers have a high occupational risk of COVID-19, this study presents COVID-19 incidence and symptoms in 100 employees working at 11 clinics of the Clinical Hospital Centre (CHC) Rijeka, Croatia from 1 June to end December 2020. All of them were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and took sick leave, which lasted 13.6±2.6 days in average. This study also looks into the role of occupational medicine physicians in prospective monitoring of acute and long-acting consequences of COVID-19 that might occur in HCWs.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）大流行对全球几乎所有社会和经济部门的私人生活和工作组织的各个方面都产生了巨大影响。站在第一道防线上的人是冒着接触感染患者风险的医护人员（HCWs）。然而，尽管他们经常受到 COVID-19 及相关躯体和心理健康问题的影响，但 COVID-19 作为一种新疾病并未立即被认定为职业病。这就是为什么 2020 年有几群 HCWs 联系他们的职业医学医生，要求将感染 SARS-CoV-2 登记为职业病。为了支持他们的诉求，并表明医院工作人员患 COVID-19 的职业风险很高，本研究在 2020 年 6 月 1 日至 12 月 31 日期间，对克罗地亚里耶卡临床医院中心（CHC）的 11 个诊所的 100 名员工进行了 COVID-19 发病率和症状调查。他们都感染了 SARS-CoV-2 并请了病假，平均病假时长为 13.6±2.6 天。本研究还探讨了职业医学医生在对 HCWs 可能出现的 COVID-19 的急性和长期影响进行前瞻性监测中的作用。
