Sickness absenteeism among outsourced hygiene and cleaning workers at a university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, 2015-2017.

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).

Hemovigilance: the experience of transfusion reaction reporting in a Teaching Hospital.

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.