Hospitalization in Winnipeg, Canada due to occupational disease: A pilot study

Abstract

Occupational exposures to male medical inpatients are common. For 4.4% (13/297) of male admissions to the general medical wards from the emergency room occupational factors may have played a role in the development of medical conditions which led to admission or to major co-morbidities. Detailed occupational histories will likely lead to more suspected cases of work related medical admissions.

Medical ward admissions among HIV-positive patients in Winnipeg, Canada, 2003–10

“…Among HIV-positive individuals admitted to hospital in Winnipeg from October 2003 to May 2010, infectious diseases were the most commonly recorded reasons for admission, with pneumonia being the most common. In a study of 297 randomly selected adult men admitted to hospital in Winnipeg, 8% were diagnosed with pneumonia, 4 compared with 37% of the present sample. Previous studies have shown that hospitalized HIV-positive individuals with pneumonia have higher odds of a longer hospital stay and one-year mortality compared with hospitalized HIV-negative individuals with pneumonia.…”