Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
Infection Control
SARS Transmission among Hospital Workers in Hong Kong
, Kitty S. Fung*, Tze Wai Wong*, Jean H. Kim*, Eric Wong*, Sydney Chung*, Deborah Ho*, Louis Y. Chan*, S.F. Lui†, and Augustine Cheng*
Table 5
Percentage distribution of the number of problems encountered by the hospital workera
| Number of problems encounteredb | Control |
Case |
Matched OR (exact 95% CI) | p value (exact) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | Cumulative % | n | % | cumulative % | |||
| 0 |
27 |
20.1 |
20.1 |
1 |
1.4 |
1.4 |
1.00 |
|
| 1 |
65 |
48.5 |
68.6 |
21 |
30.4 |
31.8 |
8.47(1.37 to ∞) |
0.0169 |
| 2 |
24 |
17.9 |
86.5 |
17 |
24.6 |
56.4 |
17.78(2.67 to ∞) |
0.0010 |
| >3c.d | 18 | 13.4 | 100.0 | 30 | 43.5 | 100.0 | 44.15(7.02 to ∞)) | <0.0001 |
aExcluded nine controls and thee cases that had at least one missing entry on one of the problems encountered.
bThe seven problems are: 1) inconsistent use of at least 1 type of personal protection equipment when having contact with SARS patients, 2) with “patients in general,” 3) when there was “no patient contact,” 4) when SARS infection control training was less than 2 hours, 5) when the respondent reported not understanding SARS infection control procedures, 6) when at least one personal protection equipment was perceived to be in inadequate supply in the 3 settings, and 7) when hand hygiene was inconsistent when there was “no patient contact.”
cPercentages of the number of problems encountered in the control group: 3 problems (6.7%), 4 problems (4.5%), 5 (1.5%), 6 (0.7%), and 7 (0%).
dPercentages of the number of problems encountered in the case group: 3 problems (10.1%), 4 (8.7%), 5 (13.0%), 6 (8.7%), and 7 (2.9%).