purpose: to report a patient with factitious (self infected) conjunctivitis. case report: a 16-year-old girl presented with pain, redness and edema of lids of her left eye. after exclusion of ocular pathologies, self inflicted conjunctivitis was diagnosed based on the underlying psychological and social problems of the patient. conclusion: after exclusion of ocular pathologies, self inflicted c...

BACKGROUND Sickness certification is a frequent and sometimes problematic task for orthopaedic surgeons.Our aim was to explore how orthopaedic surgeons view their sick-listing commission and sick-listing practice. METHODS Semi-structured interviews with seventeen orthopaedic surgeons from five orthopaedic clinics in four Swedish counties. The focus was on the experiences of these physicians i...

Indoor microbial air flora is a cause of tremendous health concern in developing countries. A number of allergic and infective illnesses are linked to poor microbiological quality of indoor air in the hospital, like Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, sick building syndrome and pneumonia. This air quality needs to be assessed by one or more of many standard methods available, old and new, and is ve...

PURPOSE Sick-listed cancer survivors may face lasting side-effects, even after a successful completion of treatment. As a consequence, they are at risk of work disability, which may lead to job loss. Knowledge of prognostic factors of work disability may support cancer survivors in their trajectory of vocational rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors of wor...

there have been few longitudinal studies on sick building syndrome (sbs), which include headache, fatigue, and runny nose. we considered effect of sick building syndrome with illnesses like headache, fatigue and runny nose. thus, we designed a questionnaire and asked from male of dormitory residence. questions of the questionnaire were more about known symptoms of buildings (headache, fatigue, ...