Emergency Department Utilization by In-hospital Healthcare Workers after COVID-19 Vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This is an observational study to analyze an emergency department (ED) utilization pattern of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinated in-hospital healthcare workers (HCWs).

Methods

We included 4,703 HCWs who were administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine between March 4 and April 2, 2021, in a tertiary hospital in Korea where fast-track and post-vaccination cohort zone (PVCZ) were introduced in ED. We analyzed data of participants' age, sex, occupation, date and type of vaccination, and their clinical information using SPSS v25.0.

Results

The sample comprised HCWs, who received either the ChAdOx1 (n = 4,458) or the BNT162B2 (n = 245) vaccines; most participants were female (73.5%), and 81.1% were under 50 years old. Further, 153 (3.3%) visi

SUBMITTER: Park MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8275460 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature