Correlation between unproven therapies and delayed return-to-work for COVID-19-infected healthcare workers.

The objective of this study is to investigate factors influencing the time to return to work (RTW) of HealthCare Workers (HCW) infected with COVID-19 during the initial wave of the pandemic in a southern French university hospital. Data collection of 170 HCW (between March 16 to June 1, 2020) included demographic and professional information, clinical profiles, comorbidities, medical management, therapies and RT-PCR results. The mean time to RTW was 15.

Permanent unfitness for work and mental disorders: a multicentric cross-sectional study of 2,788 unfit employees.

In France, Mental Disorders (MD) are the second most common medical cause of unfitness-for-work notices. The main objective is to describe the MD causing permanent medically unfitness at the workstation. A cross-sectional multicenter survey was conducted among employees followed by 323 physicians from occupational health services of the South of France in 2017.

Factors associated with internal contamination of nurses by antineoplastic drugs based on biomonitoring data from a previous study.

Internal contamination of healthcare professionals by antineoplastic drugs (ADs) remains a current occupational health issue, particularly because these compounds are classified as dangerous to handle by the NIOSH. In order to improve preventive actions, a study of the factors associated with this internal contamination was conducted among nursing staff in health care institutions. This study is a statistical analysis of metadata from a cross-sectional observational study conducted among nurses in two French hospitals.