Patient contact recall after SARS exposure

Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Apr;11(4):625-8. doi: 10.3201/eid1104.040648.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Canada / epidemiology
  • Contact Tracing / methods*
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Female
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Infection Control
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Risk Factors
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / epidemiology*