Department of Public Health Sciences and Paediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Section of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Work. 2022;73(2):405-413. doi: 10.3233/WOR-220103.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, with rapidly increasing cases all over the world, and the emerging issue of post COVID-19 (or Long COVID-19) condition is impacting the occupational world.
The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the impact of lasting COVID-19 symptoms or disability on the working population upon their return to employment.
Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statements we performed a systematic review in December 2021, screening three databases (PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus), for articles investigating return to work in patients that were previously hospitalized due to COVID-19. A hand-searched was then performed through the references of the included systematic review. A quality assessment was performed on the included studies.
Out of the 263 articles found through the initial search, 11 studies were included in this systematic review. The selected studies were divided based on follow-up time, in two months follow-up, follow-up between two and six months, and six months follow-up. All the studies highlighted an important impact of post COVID-19 condition in returning to work after being hospitalized, with differences based on follow-up time, home Country and mean/median age of the sample considered.
This review highlighted post COVID-19 condition as a rising problem in occupational medicine, with consequences on workers' quality of life and productivity. The role of occupational physicians could be essential in applying limitations to work duties or hours and facilitating the return to employment in workers with a post COVID-19 condition.
COVID-19 大流行仍在持续，全球病例迅速增加，新出现的 COVID-19（或 Long COVID-19）后病症正在影响职业领域。
本系统评价的目的是评估持续的 COVID-19 症状或残疾对重返工作岗位的劳动人口的影响。
根据系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）声明，我们于 2021 年 12 月进行了系统评价，筛选了三个数据库（PubMed、ISI Web of Knowledge、Scopus），以调查因 COVID-19 住院的患者重返工作岗位的情况。然后通过纳入的系统评价的参考文献进行了手工搜索。对纳入的研究进行了质量评估。
通过初步搜索发现的 263 篇文章中，有 11 篇被纳入本系统评价。所选研究根据随访时间分为 2 个月随访、2-6 个月随访和 6 个月随访。所有研究都强调了 COVID-19 后病症在住院后重返工作岗位方面的重要影响，但基于随访时间、所在国家和考虑的样本平均/中位数年龄存在差异。
本综述强调 COVID-19 后病症是职业医学中一个日益严重的问题，对工人的生活质量和生产力产生影响。职业医生的作用对于限制工作职责或时间并促进患有 COVID-19 后病症的工人重返工作岗位可能至关重要。
