Viral and bacterial upper respiratory tract infection in hospital health care workers over time and association with symptoms

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants (n = 223)

Variable	Number	Precent/mean SD
Gender
Male	35	15.7
Female	188	84.3
Age		36.7 (± 9.7 SD)
Profession
Doctor	104	46.6
Nurses	119	53.4
Education
Undergraduate	37	16.6
Graduate	159	71.3
Post graduate	27	12.1
Smoking status
Current/ex-smoker	11	4.9
Never	212	95.1
Influenza vaccine
Yes	48	21.5
No	175	78.5
Medical conditions^a
Yes	29	13.0
No	194	87.0
High risk procedures^b
Yes	143	64.1
No	80	35.9
Ward
Respiratory	99	44.4
Paediatric	47	21.1
Fever clinics	31	13.9
Emergency/ Intensive medication^c	46	20.6
Hospital
A	50	22.4
B	55	24.7
C	57	25.6
D	61	27.4

^aInclude asthma, diabetes, immunosuppression and other
^bInclude suctioning of airways, endotracheal intubation, sputum induction, chest, physiotherapy bronchoscopy
^c45 cases in emergency and 1 in intensive medication unit

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