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Volume 10, Number 8—August 2004
Research

SARS in Three Categories of Hospital Workers, Hong Kong

Joseph T.F. Lau*Comments to Author , Xilin Yang*, P.C. Leung*, Louis Chan*, Eliza Wong*, Carmen Fong*, and H.Y. Tsui*
Author affiliations: *The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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Table 1

Number of hospital workers, SARS-affected hospital workers, and SARS patients admitted to hospitals and attack rates

Hospital no.a No. of SARS patients admitted to hospitals No. of hospital staff who contracted SARS
 Attack rates (%)
Group N Group S Group O Overalla Group N Group S Group O Overallb
1
 3
 0
 0
 2
 2
 0.00
 0.00
 0.73
 0.18
2
 7
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0.00
 0.00
 0.00
 0.00
3
 17
 6
 2
 0
 8
 1.19
 0.96
 0.00
 0.79
4
 17
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0.00
 0.00
 0.00
 0.00
5
 24
 1
 3
 0
 4
 0.33
 1.29
 0.00
 0.64
6
 29
 7
 3
 1
 11
 0.95
 0.83
 0.23
 0.71
7
 36
 2
 0
 0
 2
 0.12
 0.00
 0.00
 0.07
8
 53
 1
 2
 1
 4
 0.26
 1.80
 0.41
 0.54
9
 82
 5
 5
 1
 11
 0.42
 1.11
 0.18
 0.50
10
 83
 8
 6
 0
 14
 0.51
 1.15
 0.00
 0.48
11
 85
 6
 6
 1
 13
 0.47
 1.41
 0.14
 0.54
12
 114
 18
 14
 4
 36
 3.58
 6.93
 1.37
 3.61
13
 128
 15
 7
 0
 22
 0.87
 1.42
 0.00
 0.68
14
 188
 13
 14
 2
 29
 1.01
 3.36
 0.26
 1.17
15
 326
 64
 54
 2
 120
 4.66
 13.30
 0.21
 4.38
16
 563
 35
 18
 10
 63
 2.76
 3.92
 1.53
 2.64
Pooled
 1,755
 181
 134
 24
 339
 1.21
 2.73
 0.29
 1.20
p value
< 0.001c
 < 0.001c
 < 0.001c
 < 0.001c
Spearman correlation coefficients 0883*** 0.928*** 0.525* 0.914* 0.737* 0.865*** 0.390 0.686**

aAll hospital workers, including all three groups (group N, nurses; group S, nonmedical support staff; and group O, other technical and medical staff).
bAll hospitals that had at least admitted one SARS patient.
cp values derived from Pearson chi-square test and comparing the attack rates among all the 16 hospitals.
dp values derived from Fisher-Freeman-Halton test and comparing the attack rates among all the 16 hospitals: *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01; and ***, p < 0.001.

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