Abstract
COVID-19 has dramatically affected working forces. We aim to report our occupational medicine service’s experience in managing suspected COVID-19 cases during the pandemic through a retrospective observational study. We compared the number of days employees were absent from work due to flu-like symptoms from March 2020 to February 2021 to the same period the previous year (2019-2020). Two hundred thirty-four patients (+47.2% compared to the previous year) who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 reported flu-like symptoms; the number of days of absence from work was 2812 (+190.2% compared to the previous year). On average, employees with flu-like symptoms lost 12.07 working days compared to 6.12 in the previous year (p<0.0001). In conclusion, in our sample COVID-19 has increased the number of working day loss. However, our approach proved to be important, especially during the first months of the pandemic, to limit SARS-CoV-2 spread in workplaces. Clin Ter 2022; 173 (1):64-66. doi: 10.7417/CT.2022.2394
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 64-66 |
Numero di pagine | 3 |
Rivista | LA CLINICA TERAPEUTICA |
Volume | 173 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2022 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- Flu symptoms
- Humans
- Italy
- Occupational medicine
- Pandemics
- Rome
- SARS-CoV-2