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Which Healthcare Workers Work With Acute Respiratory Illness?

Monday, August 19, 2019

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Source URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiol…

Author(s)

Lili Jiang, Allison McGeer, Shelly McNeil, Kevin Katz, Mark Loeb, Matthew P. Muller, Andrew Simor, Jeff Powis, Philipp Kohler, Julia M. Di Bella, Brenda L. Coleman for the Canadian Healthcare Worker Study Group

Ever wonder why your patients get respiratory infections postoperatively? Here's another risk factor. Almost 95% of hospital caregivers completed at least one shift while ill with an acute upper respiratory infection during flu season, despite hospital policies against such behavior. This was more common among physicians than among nurses.