Table 1 Descriptive characteristics and results of the Firth penalized-likelihood estimates for the effect of health care worker (HCW) position in the study hospitals on being Quantiferon-TB Gold plus positive while controlling for age
| Â | NTC | Â | Â | Â | Kara Balta, Karakol, Kemin combineda | ||||||||||
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Type of HCW | Number of participants n % | Mean age years (range) | QFT Positive n % | OR | 95% CI | P-value | KB | KK | KM | Total % | Mean age (range) | QFT Positive n % | OR | 95% -CI | P-value |
Admin | 10 4.5% | 37.5 (23–53) | 1 10.0% | Base |  |  | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 8.2% | 48.7 (31–64) | 5 33.3% | Base |  |  |
Head of department | 7 3.2% | 56.6 (48–66) | 4 57.1% | 4.1 | 0.9–39.4 | 0.06 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 2.7% | 63.0 (57–70) | 3 60.0% | 2.1 | 0.3–14.9 | 0.45 |
Physician | 23 10.5% | 47.3 (26–82) | 15 65.2% | 8.7 | 1.2–60.5 | 0.03* | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 6.5% | 43.5 (26–69) | 4 33.3% | 1.1 | 0.2–5.2 | 0.91 |
Nurse | 85 38.6% | 42.1 (21–67) | 43 50.6% | 5.9 | 1.0–35.4 | 0.10 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 49 26.6% | 49.0 (29–70) | 19 38.8% | 1.3 | 0.4–4.1 | 0.70 |
Cleaner | 34 15.5% | 47.9 (30–64) | 20 58.8% | 6.01 | 0.9–39.4 | 0.06 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 40 21.7% | 49.8 (26–67) | 16 40.0% | 1.3 | 0.4–4.2 | 0.70 |
Lab | 32 14.5% | 38.3 (22–71) | 24 75.0% | 19.8 | 2.9–135.4 | 0.002* | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 6.5% | 48.4 (26–66) | 5 41.7% | 1.4 | 0.3–6.4 | 0.66 |
Technical | 17 7.7% | 53.1 (38–63) | 7 41.2% | 2.6 | 0.3–19.1 | 0.356 | 30 | 9 | 10 | 49 26.6% | 48.4 (26–68) | 17 34.7% | 1.1 | 0.3–3.4 | 0.96 |
Other | 12 5.5% | 54.6 (42–66) | 5 41.7% | 2.0 | 0.2–17.1 | 0.52 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 1.1% | 35 (NA) | 1 50.0% | NA | NA | NA |
Total | 220 100.0% | 44.7 (21–82) | 119 54.1% |  |  |  | 98 | 49 | 37 | 184 100.0% | 48.9 (25–70) | 70 38.0% |  |  |  |