Publications by authors named "Joao Luiz Grandi"

Objectives: to verify the relationship of cardiovascular diseases with acute kidney injury and assess the prognosis of patients in renal replacement therapy.

Methods: a cohort study, carried out in a public hospital specialized in cardiology. Treatment, comorbidities, duration of treatment, laboratory tests, discharge and deaths were analyzed.

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Introduction: Absenteeism justified by sick leaves are valuable indicators of workers' health conditions.

Objectives: To analyze hospital cleaning staff sick leaves during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included employees who presented a medical sick leave certificate justifying at least 1 missed day of work during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Background: Absenteeism refers to frequent absences from work without producing a medical certificate or having been granted sick leave.

Objective: To establish the rate of short-term sickness absenteeism (1 to 15 days) among outsourced hygiene and cleaning workers at a university hospital.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of all medical and dental certificates collected by the contractor along two years (2015 through 2017).

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Objective: To describe the occurrence of immediate transfusion reactions received by the Risk Management Department of Hospital São Paulo.

Method: Cross-sectional and retrospective study which analyzed the notification sheets of transfusion reactions that occurred between May 2002 and December 2016 and were included in the Hemovigilance National System.

Results: One thousand five hundred and forty-eight transfusion reaction notification sheets were analyzed, all of which concerned immediate reactions associated with packed red blood cells (72.

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Purpose: To verify the relationship between stress indicators and the age and years of service of military firefighters from the fire rescue corps of the metropolitan area of the state of São Paulo.

Methods: Forty military firefighters with the mean age of 37.9 ± 5.

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