Patient contact recall after SARS exposure

被引:2
作者
Dimoulas, P [1 ]
Green, KA [1 ]
Shigayeva, A [1 ]
Aquino, M [1 ]
McGeer, A [1 ]
Scales, DC [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Mt Sinai Hosp, Toronto, ON, Canada
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D O I
10.3201/eid1104.040648
中图分类号
R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
学科分类号
100102 ;
摘要
We reinterviewed healthcare workers who had been exposed to a patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in an intensive care unit to evaluate the effect of time on recall reliability and willingness to report contact activities and infection control precautions. Healthcare workers reliably recalled events 6 months after exposure.
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