Working While Sick: A Systematic Review of Infectious Illness Presenteeism

A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors – BMC Public Health (free)

Related Study: Working with influenza-like illness: Presenteeism among US health care personnel during the 2014-2015 influenza season – American Journal of Infection Control (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentaries: This flu season, physicians need to scrap the ‘martyr culture’ of working while sick – STAT (free) AND Healthcare Providers Shouldn’t Come to Work While Sick, but They Do — Here’s Why – HIV and ID Observations, Journal Watch Blog (free)

Infectious illness presenteeism (working while sick) prevalence ranged from 35 to 97%.