All-cause Mortality Due to Bacteremia during a 60-Day Non-Physician Healthcare Worker Strike

Filip Jansåker; Mona Katrine Alberthe Holm; Kim Oren Gradel; Jenny Dahl Knudsen; Jonas Bredtoft Boel; Danish Collaborative Bacteraemia Network (DACOBAN)

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1373

All-cause Mortality Due to Bacteremia during a 60-Day Non-Physician Healthcare Worker Strike

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1758-e1761. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1373.

Authors

Filip Jansåker^{1

2}, Mona Katrine Alberthe Holm³, Kim Oren Gradel^{4

5}, Jenny Dahl Knudsen¹, Jonas Bredtoft Boel⁶; Danish Collaborative Bacteraemia Network (DACOBAN)

Collaborators

Danish Collaborative Bacteraemia Network (DACOBAN):
J D Østergaard, U S Knudsen, M Jensen, M Arpi, S Thønnings Pinholt, H C Schønheyder, M Søgaard, K Koch, J Smit, K O Gradel

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
⁴ Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁵ Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁶ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark.

Abstract

This study explored all-cause mortality of bacteremia diagnosed during a 60-day non-physician healthcare worker strike in 2008. A significant change, with 5.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.2-8.7%, P < .01) absolute risk increase, was seen in 90-day mortality during the strike (n = 598) compared with the rest of the study period 2000-2015 (n = 75 647).

Keywords: healthcare strike; bacteremia; bloodstream infection; epidemiology; mortality.

MeSH terms

Bacteremia*
Health Personnel
Humans
Retrospective Studies