Patient Contact Recall after SARS Exposure

Patient Contact Recall after SARS Exposure

Popy Dimoulas, Karen A. Green, Altynay Shigayeva, Michael Aquino, Allison McGeer, Damon C Scales

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.

2005

dispatch, SARS, Occupational Exposure, Intensive care unit, RECALL, reliability

DOI: 10.3201/eid1104.040648

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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