Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020
Healthcare workers are at high risk of COVID-19 infection due to their professional exposure. To date, there is limited data and evidence on COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Portugal. We described the characteristics of healthcare workers reported as confirmed cases of COVID-19 durin...
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Healthcare workers are at high risk of COVID-19 infection due to their professional exposure. To date, there is limited data and evidence on COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Portugal. We described the characteristics of healthcare workers reported as confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the first months of the national surveillance in Portugal (January-May 2020). We conclude with recommendations to improve surveillance of COVID-19 among the health workforce.
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| spelling | doaj.art-4fc75b2a6f6b42458d100f25793011c12024-03-20T14:05:09ZengAssociação Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e FamiliarRevista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar2182-51812021-09-0137410.32385/rpmgf.v37i4.12979Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020Héloïse Lucaccioni0Cristina Costa1Mariana Perez Duque2Rita Sá Machado3European Program for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden Direção-Geral da Saúde, Lisbon, PortugalUnidade de Saúde Pública Zé Povinho, ACeS Oeste Norte, Portugal Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Lisbon, Portugal Direção-Geral da Saúde, Lisbon, PortugalEuropean Program for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden Direção-Geral da Saúde, Lisbon, Portugal Unidade de Saúde Pública, ACeS Porto Ocidental, ARS Norte, Porto, PortugalDivisão de Epidemiologia e Estatística, Direção-Geral da Saúde, Lisbon, Portugal Healthcare workers are at high risk of COVID-19 infection due to their professional exposure. To date, there is limited data and evidence on COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers in Portugal. We described the characteristics of healthcare workers reported as confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the first months of the national surveillance in Portugal (January-May 2020). We conclude with recommendations to improve surveillance of COVID-19 among the health workforce. https://rpmgf.pt/ojs/index.php/rpmgf/article/view/12979COVID-19Healthcare workersPortugalEpidemiological surveillanceSARS-CoV-2 |
| spellingShingle | Héloïse Lucaccioni Cristina Costa Mariana Perez Duque Rita Sá Machado Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar COVID-19 Healthcare workers Portugal Epidemiological surveillance SARS-CoV-2 |
| title | Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 |
| title_full | Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 |
| title_fullStr | Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 |
| title_short | Descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in healthcare workers, Portugal, 2020 |
| title_sort | descriptive epidemiology of covid 19 cases in healthcare workers portugal 2020 |
| topic | COVID-19 Healthcare workers Portugal Epidemiological surveillance SARS-CoV-2 |
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