        item: #1 of 30
          id: cord-028273-22swinc6
      author: Cabrini, Luca
       title: Yesterday heroes, today plague doctors: the dark side of celebration
        date: 2020-07-01
       words: 400
      flesch: 46
     summary: There is a good chance that as long as we are presented as heroes continuously facing death, we will suffer discrimination; such portrayal erroneously belabours the risk of being infected by HCWs, making it seem a very probable option. In the Philippines, the President ordered the police protection for HCWs [4] .
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          id: cord-252250-hhdawwjf
      author: Menon, Vikas
       title: Ethical dilemmas faced by health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic: Issues, implications and suggestions
        date: 2020-04-28
       words: 1099
      flesch: 52
     summary: One group expected to work as usual in these trying times are health care workers and, therefore, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of frontline health care workers is gaining legitimate attention (Ayanian, 2020; Lai et al., 2020) . key: cord-252250-hhdawwjf authors: Menon, Vikas; Padhy, Susanta Kumar title: Ethical dilemmas faced by health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic: Issues, implications and suggestions date: 2020-04-28 journal:
    keywords: care; health
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          id: cord-253833-0lajhqn5
      author: Misra-Hebert, Anita D
       title: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers risk of infection and outcomes in a large, integrated health system.
        date: 2020-08-19
       words: 2866
      flesch: 40
     summary: However, the overlap propensity score weighted proportions were 8.9 vs. 7.7 for HCW vs. non-HCW having a positive test with weighted odds ratio (OR) 1.17, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.99-1.38. Among those testing positive, weighted proportions for hospitalization were 7.4 vs.15.9 for HCW vs. non-HCW with OR of 0.42 (CI 0.26-0.66) and for ICU admission: 2.2 vs.4.5 for HCW vs. non-HCW with OR of 0.48 (CI 0.20 -1.04).
    keywords: cov-2; covid-19; hcw; health; non; risk; sars; test
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        item: #4 of 30
          id: cord-256705-gexh2wtd
      author: Prescott, K.
       title: COVID-19: how prepared are front-line healthcare workers in England?
        date: 2020-04-24
       words: 2070
      flesch: 56
     summary: However, if there is to be success in managing this pandemic, levels of HCW knowledge must rapidly increase. It was sent to front line HCW at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
    keywords: covid-19; hcw; hospital; respondents; survey
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          id: cord-261173-lnjh56ts
      author: Misra-Hebert, Anita D.
       title: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Workers’ Risk of Infection and Outcomes in a Large, Integrated Health System
        date: 2020-09-01
       words: 3584
      flesch: 38
     summary: The neighborhood characteristic of population density as measured per square kilometer was similar for tested HCW vs. non-HCW while the population per housing unit was slightly higher. However, the overlap propensity score weighted proportions were 8.9 vs. 7.7 for HCW vs. non-HCW having a positive test with weighted odds ratio (OR) 1.17, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.99–1.38.
    keywords: covid-19; hcw; health; non; patient; proportion; risk; vs.
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          id: cord-262653-v1to1mrp
      author: Asad, H.
       title: Health Care Workers and Patients as Trojan Horses: a COVID19 ward outbreak
        date: 2020-07-04
       words: 3433
      flesch: 53
     summary: In total 23 out of 29 staff on the ward developed COVID-19 infection over a 14 day period. The significant number of staff cases is likely related to these factors along with the lack of universal use of personal protective equipment for patient care at this time.
    keywords: case; hospital; infection; staff; transmission; ward
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        item: #7 of 30
          id: cord-264522-u61m4x9l
      author: Crupi, Robert S.
       title: Linking Emergency Preparedness and Health Care Worker Vaccination Against Influenza: A Novel Approach
        date: 2016-11-16
       words: 3465
      flesch: 38
     summary: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations: New infection control requirement for offering influenza vaccination to staff and licensed independent practitioners Requiring influenza vaccination for health care workers Influenza vaccination of health care workers in the United States Mandatory influenza vaccination of health care workers: Translating policy to practice Albany judge blocks vaccination rule Relationship of influenza vaccination declination statements and influenza vaccination rates for healthcare workers in The U.S. Healthy People 2010 initiative set a national goal of 60% coverage for HCW influenza vaccination by 2010.
    keywords: emergency; hcws; influenza; pod; preparedness; pull; push; vaccination
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        item: #8 of 30
          id: cord-266261-6h7c26xg
      author: Bharati, Joyita
       title: COVID‐19 pandemic in limited‐resource countries: Strategies for challenges in a dialysis unit
        date: 2020-07-12
       words: 319
      flesch: 48
     summary: In the absence of universal testing, apprehensions related to inadvertent exposure to COVID-19 positive patient was increasing among health-care workers (HCW) and patients, which was crucial to be addressed to maintain functionality of the unit. A risk stratification algorithm after inadvertent exposure to COVID-19 positive patient was adapted from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to educate HCW.
    keywords: covid-19; hcw
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        item: #9 of 30
          id: cord-282280-5pggpbrq
      author: Doornekamp, Laura
       title: Determinants of Vaccination Uptake in Risk Populations: A Comprehensive Literature Review
        date: 2020-08-27
       words: 9968
      flesch: 30
     summary: In HCW, influenza vaccination uptake is most widely studied. While targeted vaccination guidelines are available, vaccination uptake seems low.
    keywords: analysis; association; caret; determinant; influenza; pointing; population; risk; significance; studies; uptake; vaccination; vaccination uptake
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          id: cord-282675-s4zmffj3
      author: Sagaon-Teyssier, Luis
       title: Assessment of mental health outcomes and associated factors among workers in community-based HIV care centers in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Mali
        date: 2020-10-15
       words: 6933
      flesch: 43
     summary: RAND Corporation Poor performance of community health workers in Kalabo District Staff attrition among community health workers in home-based care programmes for people living with HIV and AIDS in western Kenya Health workers, quality of care, and child health: Simulating the relationships between increases in health staffing and child length Focussing on the wellbeing of health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa Overworked? The deleterious impact on HCW mental health [14, 15] because of the these structural problems and unpreparedness to contain COVID-19 constitutes a serious public health issue [16] .
    keywords: anxiety; care; centers; covid-19; depression; hcw; health; healthcare; hiv; insomnia; mali; mental; outbreak; workers
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        item: #11 of 30
          id: cord-284640-tl9nmvog
      author: Tabah, Alexis
       title: Personal protective equipment and intensive care unit healthcare worker safety in the COVID-19 era (PPE-SAFE): An international survey
        date: 2020-06-13
       words: 3274
      flesch: 52
     summary: In summary this survey study provides a snapshot of reported PPE practices availability, and confidence in adequacy to provide protection among HCWs at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, shortages of PPE equipment has led to practices to reduce, reuse, or substitute lesser or non-approved products in an attempt to address inadequate supply of PPE (18) .
    keywords: care; covid-19; equipment; hcw; ppe; respondents; survey; use
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          id: cord-286932-2gjnpqqa
      author: Lee, Yung
       title: Impact of hospital lockdown secondary to COVID-19 and past pandemics on surgical practice: A living rapid systematic review
        date: 2020-11-12
       words: 2958
      flesch: 39
     summary: 13 Studies reporting outcomes of patients undergoing surgery during an epidemic-caused hospital lockdown and studies investigating the impact of lockdown on surgical HCW and surgical practice were included. Studies conducted during COVID-19 accounted for 98.6% of the included patients, while 1.2% were from studies during SARS, and 0.15% were from studies during MERS.
    keywords: care; covid-19; epidemics; hcw; measures; studies
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          id: cord-291810-eq7pjltx
      author: Reusken, Chantal B
       title: Rapid assessment of regional SARS-CoV-2 community transmission through a convenience sample of healthcare workers, the Netherlands, March 2020
        date: 2020-03-26
       words: 1888
      flesch: 52
     summary: Of six hospitals with positive HCW, two accounted for 38 positive HCW. Of six hospitals with positive HCW, two accounted for 38 positive HCW.
    keywords: brabant; hcw; hospitals; march; positive
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        item: #14 of 30
          id: cord-296306-xcomjvaa
      author: Rivett, Lucy
       title: Screening of healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 highlights the role of asymptomatic carriage in COVID-19 transmission
        date: 2020-05-11
       words: 6506
      flesch: 42
     summary: Ward Q is a general medical ward designated as a 'red' clinical area for the care of COVID-19 positive patients, with a Scenario 1 PPE protocol (Tables 4-5). In addition, given SARS CoV-2 was only introduced into the human population in late 2019, there is at present a lack of diversity in circulating strains.
    keywords: asymptomatic; cov-2; covid-19; data; hcw; hcws; sars; screening; self; staff; symptoms; testing; ward
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        item: #15 of 30
          id: cord-297879-6xb25uhx
      author: Moncunill, G.
       title: SARS-CoV-2 infections and antibody responses among health care workers in a Spanish hospital after a month of follow-up
        date: 2020-08-25
       words: 5551
      flesch: 52
     summary: The effect of infection on antibody levels was analyzed using multilevel mixed-effects linear regression models incorporating Gaussian random intercepts. Cumulative seropositive data was generated by selecting antibody levels at month 0 from individuals who were seropositive and antibody levels from month 1 in individuals who seroconverted from month 0 to month 1 and used for the analysis of antibody levels by different factors.
    keywords: antibody; cov-2; iga; igg; levels; medrxiv; month; preprint; sars
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          id: cord-301299-flb5wwzg
      author: García, Inés Suárez
       title: SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers in a hospital in Madrid, Spain
        date: 2020-07-21
       words: 3952
      flesch: 46
     summary: HCWs were stratified in three categories according to their presumed level of occupational exposure to COVID-19 cases: high risk (HCWs with usual contact with COVID-19 patients: Accident and Emergency, Internal Medicine, Intensive Care, and Pneumology Departments), moderate risk (HCWs with occasional contact with COVID-19 patients: other medical and surgical departments not included in the high or low risk groups) and low risk (including administrative workers, social workers, hospital management, and Pharmacy, Pathology, and Preventive Medicine Departments). There were no significant differences in the proportion of COVID-19 cases according to level of occupational exposure (p=0.123).
    keywords: cases; covid-19; hcws; hospital; occupational; patients; study; workers
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          id: cord-306247-259zacce
      author: Garnica, Marcia
       title: COVID-19 in hematology: data from a hematologic and transplant unit
        date: 2020-09-06
       words: 2646
      flesch: 45
     summary: Regarding HCW, COVID-19 cases started earlier comparing to hematological patients, but most HCW cases occurred after the second week of April, with a cluster distribution of thirteen cases in 2 weeks. After WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, a COVID-19 Committee was formed to coordinate all actions and specific areas for COVID-19 patients where delimited, intended not to permit crossover of COVID-19 and other patients.
    keywords: cases; covid-19; hcw; pandemic; patients; transplant
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          id: cord-310508-zgqbfmzl
      author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa
       title: A Novel Coronavirus Outbreak from Wuhan City in China, Rapid Need for Emergency Departments Preparedness and Response; a Letter to Editor
        date: 2020-02-02
       words: 1259
      flesch: 40
     summary: The severe disease manifests as severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) or severe pneumonia, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), sepsis and septic shock. World Health Organization Infection prevention and control during health care when novel coronavirus ( nCoV) infection is suspected: interim guidance Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection is suspected: interim guidance
    keywords: coronavirus; infection; ncov; patients
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        item: #19 of 30
          id: cord-311151-mrsjhjh4
      author: Zhang, Yuemei
       title: Estimating Preventable COVID19 Infections Related to Elective Outpatient Surgery in Washington State: A Quantitative Model
        date: 2020-03-20
       words: 3660
      flesch: 44
     summary: Preventable patient infections (yellow line) appears to behave in an exponential manner, while preventable HCW infections (green line) behaves logistically. To simplify the calculation for the estimated number of elective outpatient cases in WA, we assumed that the case number was directly proportional to population.
    keywords: cases; covid19; hcw; infections; license; patients; preprint
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          id: cord-311539-pbzb0jjt
      author: Puro, V.
       title: Clustered Cases of Pneumonia among Healthcare Workers over a 1-year Period in Three Italian Hospitals: Applying the WHO SARS Alert
        date: 2006
       words: 1750
      flesch: 46
     summary: To try to determine the minimum number of pneumonia alert cases that should define a SARS alert cluster in Italy, we analyzed sickness absences longer than 7 days, which occurred among HCW employed in three Italian hospitals in 2003. [7, 8] , and the duration of SARS pneumonia was usually longer than a week [9] .
    keywords: alert; hcw; pneumonia; sars
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          id: cord-316266-6m9g3bdr
      author: Jones, Peter
       title: What proportion of healthcare worker masks carry virus? A systematic review
        date: 2020-06-24
       words: 2236
      flesch: 50
     summary: Although limited, current evidence suggests that viral carriage on the outer surface of surgical masks worn by HCW treating patients with clinical respiratory illness is low and there was not strong evidence to support the assumption that mask use may increase the risk of viral transmission. 6 7 This prompted a change in advice such that currently mask use is permitted, with warnings that incorrect use of masks may be harmful, including concerns that mask use may actually increase your risk of COVID-19.
    keywords: hcw; masks; review; studies; use
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          id: cord-322451-cwpz4akv
      author: Hsin, Dena Hsin-Chen
       title: Heroes of SARS: professional roles and ethics of health care workers
        date: 2004-07-27
       words: 3599
      flesch: 63
     summary: On the other hand, some suggested to punish those who were afraid of treating SARS patients. Most nurses and doctors actually died from taking care of SARS patients involuntarily.
    keywords: disease; health; hospital; patients; people; sars; taiwan
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          id: cord-325778-y5miy24f
      author: Quigley, Ashley L.
       title: Estimating the Burden of COVID-19 on the Australian Healthcare Workers and Health System
        date: 2020-10-29
       words: 2960
      flesch: 47
     summary: There is no publicly available national data on healthcare worker infections in Australia. The rate of healthcare worker infection was 72/100,000 and of community infection 34/100,000.
    keywords: covid-19; hcw; health; healthcare; infections; outbreaks; workers
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          id: cord-329350-qrxl5o1e
      author: Pan, Angelo
       title: Suggestions from Cremona, Italy - two months into the pandemic at the frontline of COVID-19 in Europe
        date: 2020-06-09
       words: 1664
      flesch: 51
     summary: Early intubation is recommended to manage COVID-19 patients (7) and very rapidly you may run out ventilators. On the HCWs' side, working with COVID-19 patients is an incredible stressful duty since it is a highly transmittable disease.
    keywords: care; covid-19; hcw; management; patients
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          id: cord-332083-135iic7m
      author: Xia, Wei
       title: The Physical and Psychological Effects of Personal Protective Equipment on Health Care Workers in Wuhan, China: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
        date: 2020-09-29
       words: 4740
      flesch: 48
     summary: Equipment and N95 masks are required, and certain procedures must be followed in donning and doffing level II PPE and above. This may be due to the different tasks and work intensity because clinical practices such as auscultatory tests, blood sample collection, and venipuncture are usually performed by physicians or nurses, and HCWs in an ICU treat patients with the most severe or complicated conditions; therefore, their work intensity or duration of PPE wear is much higher than that of those working in other departments.
    keywords: china; covid-19; discomfort; hcws; hours; infection; patients; ppe; working
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          id: cord-333460-4ui8i9u5
      author: Li, Qing
       title: The Psychological Health Status of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in Guangdong, China
        date: 2020-09-18
       words: 3589
      flesch: 51
     summary: HCW respondents had feelings of social discrimination. Contact with COVID-19 cases or suspected cases, worry about suffering from COVID-19, worry about their family, and dismission during the COVID-19 period were significant work-related contributing factors to the psychological health problems of HCW (all p<0.01).
    keywords: anxiety; covid-19; depression; hcw; health; risk; study
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          id: cord-335638-p84nmtfp
      author: Swaminathan, Ashwin
       title: Personal Protective Equipment and Antiviral Drug Use during Hospitalization for Suspected Avian or Pandemic Influenza(1)
        date: 2007-10-17
       words: 3371
      flesch: 39
     summary: Notably, a substantial minority of close contacts (15%; ≈2 per API patient) were non-HCWs (e.g., hospital patients or visitors), generated primarily in the triage area. This amounts to an average of 0.8 to 4.3 courses of antiviral medication per suspected API patient during the initial 6 hours of management.
    keywords: api; close; contacts; infl; patient; ppe; study; uenza
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          id: cord-336837-rerp1g1w
      author: Jones, Nick K
       title: Effective control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between healthcare workers during a period of diminished community prevalence of COVID-19
        date: 2020-06-19
       words: 3084
      flesch: 35
     summary: In addition to asymptomatic screening, testing of symptomatic HCWs is essential for preventing excessive erosion of the hospital workforce by self-isolation on the basis of symptoms alone, and testing of symptomatic HCW household contacts negates the need for unnecessary self-quarantine periods for co-habiting HCWs. This fall in positive HCW tests mirrored the decline in both patients testing positive at CUHNFT and those tested throughout the wider region ( Figure 1B) .
    keywords: data; hcw; hcws; sars; screening
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          id: cord-351022-8y43jhmu
      author: Schwartz, Carmela
       title: A dynamic response to exposures of healthcare workers to newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients or hospital personnel, in order to minimize cross transmission and need for suspension from work during the outbreak
        date: 2020-09-01
       words: 2902
      flesch: 50
     summary: Furthermore, immediate epidemiological investigation and, if needed, early suspension from work of exposed HCWs is needed in order to limit the spread of infection to and between HCWs and patients (7) (8) . Immediate epidemiological investigations of exposed HCWs were initiated, in order to break the chain of cross-transmission between HCWs as well as avoiding transmission from HCWs to patients, thus keeping maximal work force available.
    keywords: covid-19; hcws; isolation; work
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          id: cord-353988-xoxmugi8
      author: Saleiro, Sandra
       title: Tuberculose em profissionais de saúde de um serviço hospitalar
        date: 2007-12-31
       words: 2251
      flesch: 37
     summary: Rev Port Pneumol 2007; XIII (6): 789-799 Introdução: A tuberculose é considerada uma doença ocupacional nos profissionais de saúde e a sua transmissão, nas instituições de saúde, constitui um problema importante. Conclusão: A tuberculose nosocomial é relevante, sendo necessário efectuar um esforço para implementar, com sucesso, medidas de controlo de infecção nas instituições de saúde, assim como um programa eficaz de rastreio de tuberculose entre os profissionais de saúde.
    keywords: care; cases; hcw; health; hospital; molecular; mycobacterium; tuberculosis
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