Jesus Gonzalez-Lama (Spain)
Area Gestion Sanitaria Sur de Cordoba
Primary Care, UGC Cabra
Jesús González-Lama, specialist in Family Medicine and in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, PhD, MSc. He is a researcher of the Clinical Epidemiological Research Group in Primary Care (GICEAP-IMIBIC). He is currently involved in several competitively funded research projects and international clinical trials with investigational products, as PI and collaborator. He currently works as a family doctor and collaborates in the training of specialists in training and medical students. He is responsible for research at the Clinical Management Unit of Cabra (Córdoba, Spain) and he is the research representative of the Spanish Group of Communication in Healthcare.

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CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTION IN SPANISH FAMILY PHYSICIANS

Session Name
COVID-19 I (ID 77)
Date
09.07.2021, Friday
Session Time
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Room
Hall 5
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Lecture Time
06:00 PM - 06:11 PM
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Background and purpose: Healthcare workers are exposed to a high risk of contagion by the SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify the sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection in family physicians (GPs) who carry out their work in Primary Care or in Emergency Departments.

Methods: GPs who underwent an RT-PCR test (real-time polymerase chain reaction) for the detection of the SARSCoV-2 were included. Sociodemographic and work variables were collected, as well as contact with COVID-19 patients, symptoms presented during the process, previous chronic morbidities and smoking, through an ad-hoc online questionnaire (Google form). Odds Ratios (OR) were estimated to measure the magnitude of the association between those variables and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection (logistic regression).

Results: 133 out of 969 FPs were PCR positive (13.7%; 95% CI: 11.6-16.0%). The most frequently declared symptoms were fatigue/tiredness (69.2%; 95% CI: 60.9-77.4%), cough (56.4%, 95% CI: 47.6-65.2 %) and headache (55.6%, 95% CI: 46.8-64.4%). The variables independently associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection were previous contact with a COVID-19 patient (OR: 2.3; 95% CI: 1.2-4.2 ), fatigue/tiredness (OR: 2.2; 95% CI: 1.2-3.9), olfactory dysfunction (4.6, 95% CI: 1.7-12.5), gustatory dysfunction (OR: 32.0; 95% CI: 9.6-106.8), cough (OR: 3.0; 95% CI: 1.7-5.3) and fever (OR: 6.1; 95% CI: 3, 2-11.4).

Conclusions: Early detection of selected symptoms could help to suspect COVID-19 disease in GPs, mainly if a previous contact with a COVID-19 patient has been documented.

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