Department of Health Care Surveillance and Bioethics, section of Legal Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
ondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Clin Ter. 2022 Feb 7;173(1):64-66. doi: 10.7417/CT.2022.2394.
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 retrospec-tive 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 symp-toms; 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.
新冠疫情对劳动力产生了巨大影响。本研究旨在通过回顾性观察研究，报告我们在大流行期间管理疑似新冠病例的职业医学服务经验。我们比较了 2020 年 3 月至 2021 年 2 月期间因流感样症状而缺勤的员工人数与前一年同期（2019-2020 年）的人数。234 名经 SARS-CoV-2 检测呈阴性但报告有流感样症状的患者；缺勤天数为 2812 天（比前一年增加 190.2%）。平均而言，有流感样症状的员工比前一年（p<0.0001）多损失 12.07 个工作日。总之，在我们的样本中，新冠疫情增加了工作日的损失。然而，我们的方法在大流行的最初几个月被证明是重要的，有助于限制工作场所中 SARS-CoV-2 的传播。
