Patient Contact Recall after SARS Exposure

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• dispatch
• SARS
• occupational exposure
• intensive care unit
• recall
• reliability