Association between job role and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare personnel, Iowa, 2021

Takaaki Kobayashi; Alexandra Trannel; John Heinemann; Alexandre R Marra; William Etienne; Oluchi J Abosi; Stephanie Holley; Angelique Dains; Kyle E Jenn; Holly Meacham; Barbara A Schuessler; Linder Wendt; Patrick Ten Eyck; Beth Hanna; Jorge L Salinas; Patrick G Hartley; Bradley Ford; Melanie Wellington; Karen B Brust; Daniel J Diekema

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.349

Association between job role and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare personnel, Iowa, 2021

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 1;2(1):e188. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.349. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Takaaki Kobayashi¹, Alexandra Trannel¹, John Heinemann¹, Alexandre R Marra^{1

2}, William Etienne¹, Oluchi J Abosi¹, Stephanie Holley¹, Angelique Dains¹, Kyle E Jenn¹, Holly Meacham¹, Barbara A Schuessler¹, Linder Wendt³, Patrick Ten Eyck³, Beth Hanna¹, Jorge L Salinas⁴, Patrick G Hartley¹, Bradley Ford¹, Melanie Wellington¹, Karen B Brust¹, Daniel J Diekema¹

Affiliations

¹ University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
² Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
⁴ Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States.

Abstract

We describe the association between job roles and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare personnel. A wide range of hazard ratios were observed across job roles. Medical assistants had higher hazard ratios than nurses, while attending physicians, food service workers, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, residents and fellows, and temporary workers had lower hazard ratios.