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ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2022

Occupational health surveillance of healthcare workers during COVID 19 pandemic: a narrative review.

Gabriele D'Ettorre, Vincenza Pellicani, Massimo Muratore, Giancarlo Ceccarelli

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Review in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Gabriele D'EttorreLocal Health Authority, Lecce. gabriele.det@libero.it.
Vincenza PellicaniLocal Health Authority, Lecce. vince.pellicani@alice.it.
Massimo MuratoreLocal Health Authority, Lecce. gabriele.dettorre70@gmail.com.
Giancarlo CeccarelliDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University, Rome. gabriele.dettorre@uniba.it.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimsCurrent literature has increasingly highlighted the risk of spreading the SARS-COV-2 infection in healthcare settings and showed the need for occupational health surveillance of HCWs during the current epidemiological emergency from COVID-19, as a preventive measure to minimize the spread of the infection. The purpose of this narrative review was to evaluate the literature and discover what the latest developments are about the management of the occupational health surveillance of healthcare workers (HCWs) during COVID-19 pandemic.

methodsWe searched for publications in MEDLINE, Pubmed and Google Scholar using selected keywords. Each article was reviewed and categorized into one or more of the following three categories based on its subject matter: early diagnosis of COVID-19 in HCWs, detection of worker susceptibility to severe COVID-19, medical examination of HCWs returning to work after COVID-19.

resultsSelected articles showed the RT-PCR test for Sars-CoV-2 as the gold standard to enable rapid identification of infected HCWs; an effective schedule of occupational health surveillance allows the identification of the susceptibility of the workers to severe Covid-19 and protect HCWs returning to work from the disease.

conclusionsThe findings of the present narrative review show the need to strenghten the occupational health surveillance of HCWs during the current COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim not only to contain the spread of the infection in healthcare settings, but also to protect HCWs coming back to work after the disease.

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COVID-19Occupational HealthHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2

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PMCPMC8972867

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