Investigating an outbreak of non-specific building-related symptoms in workers of a general hospital

Investigating an outbreak of non-specific building-related symptoms in workers of a general hospital

Objective:To obtain a case definition and to describe variables associated with a cluster of unspecific symptoms in healthcare workers (HCW) in a hospital building. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed. All people working at the Residencia Cantabria building (a 200-bed buildi...

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Main Authors: Inés Gómez-Acebo, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, Elena Pérez-Belmonte, Javier Llorca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2013-08-01
Series:International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Subjects:
sick building syndrome
cluster analysis
healthcare workers
predictive model
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