Influenza fever restrictions for healthcare workers and pandemic planning: time for reappraisal

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Oct;36(10):1248. doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.173. Epub 2015 Jul 20.

Author

Leonard A Mermel¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases,Rhode Island Hospital, and Department of Medicine,Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University,Providence,Rhode Island.

PMID: 26190801
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.173

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Fever / etiology*
Health Personnel*
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / prevention & control*
Influenza, Human / complications
Influenza, Human / diagnosis*
Influenza, Human / epidemiology
Influenza, Human / transmission
Pandemics
United States / epidemiology