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. 2021 Jul 7;51(6):560–563. doi: 10.1016/j.idnow.2021.06.308

Table 1.

Number and proportion of infected COVID-19 workers (n = 30,248a) by type of hospital setting, geographic area, and occupation, France (March 1 to June 28, 2020).

Categories Number of infected workers Proportion (%) of infected workers [95% CI] Adjusted odds ratio [95% CI] P-value
Type of HS
 Tertiary hospital 9963 2.83 [2.78–2.89] Reference
 Secondary hospital 13,526 4.02 [4.00–4.04] 1.52 [1.48–1.56] < 0.001
 Primary hospital 3214 4.51 [4.46–4.57] 1.66 [1.60–1.73] < 0.001
 Specialized hospital 2152 2.54 [2.50–2.59] 1.05 [1.00–1.10] 0.057
 Rehabilitation care 1125 3.72 [3.67–3.76] 1.37 [1.28–1.46] < 0.001
 Other 253 12.69 [12.12–13.25] 1.63 [1.40–1.90] < 0.001
 Unknown 15 [NA] [NA] [NA]
Geographic area
 Less-impacted regions 19,377 5.34 [5.27–5.41] Reference
 Highly-impacted regionsb 10,871 2.10 [2.09–2.11] 2.48 [2.42–2.54] < 0.001
Occupation
 HCW 25,337 3.97 [3.95–3.99]
  Nurses 8922 3.79 [3.77–3.81] Reference
  Healthcare assistants 7561 4.91 [4.88–4.94] 1.30 [1.26–1.34] < 0.001
  Physicians 3015 3.59 [3.57–3.61] 0.92 [0.89–0.96] < 0.001
  Residents 1074 3.55 [3.53–3.57] 1.00 [0.94–1.07] 0.961
  Physiotherapists 315 4.65 [4.62–4.68] 1.23 [1.09–1.38] 0.001
  Midwives 195 1.62 [1.61–1.63] 0.39 [0.34–0.45] < 0.001
  Other HCW 4255 3.66 [3.64–3.68] 0.94 [0.91–0.98] 0.001
 Non-HCW 3208 1.32 [1.32–1.33] 0.34 [0.33–0.35] < 0.001
 Unknown 1703 [NA] [NA] [NA]
Totala 30,248 3.43 [3.42–3.45] [NA] [NA]

HCW: healthcare workers; HS: hospital setting; NA: not applicable.

Teaching hospitals or military hospitals were defined as tertiary hospitals; local hospitals as secondary hospitals; local private clinics as primary hospitals; psychiatric hospitals or oncology centers as specialized hospitals; long-term HS providing rehabilitation care as rehabilitation care centers; and dialysis centers or day hospitals as “other”.

a

Students (n = 840) were excluded from this analysis, as no published denominator was available.

b

Grand-Est, Haut de France, Île-de-France, and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté for mainland regions and Guyana and Mayotte for overseas regions, were classified as “highly-affected regions”. The remaining 12 regions were classified as “less-affected regions”.