Long-Term COVID: Case Report and Methodological Proposals for Return to Work

Ginevra Malta, Luigi Cirrincione, Fulvio Plescia, Marcello Campagna, Claudia Montagnini and Emanuele Cannizzaro
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Ginevra Malta: Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “G. D’Alessandro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Luigi Cirrincione: Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “G. D’Alessandro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Fulvio Plescia: Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “G. D’Alessandro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Marcello Campagna: Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Claudia Montagnini: Ministero della Difesa, Via Cortonese n° 5, 06124 Perugia, Italy
Emanuele Cannizzaro: Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “G. D’Alessandro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-16

Abstract: Almost two years after the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the knowledge of which in the infectious and therapeutic spheres is constantly evolving, attention paid to the medicolegal aspects linked to this emergency phenomenon has mainly focused on the liability implications falling on healthcare personnel. With regard to the medicolegal assessment of the outcomes of COVID-19 illness, although it is a procedure that is commonly used, and although references in the assessment tables in force have been adhered to, a specific assessment protocol has not been standardized that takes into account, from an objective point of view, the degree of severity of the long-term residual outcomes and their impact on the social and working lives of subjects. This shortcoming appears to be attributable to the immediate need to categorize the results of COVID-19, but, in our opinion, it deserves an in-depth study and protocols to enable evaluation committees to draw up an assessment as precisely as possible and that is free of gaps, which could be the subject of legal disputes. The aim of the present work, in light of a worldwide problem, is to arrive at specific and univocal evaluation criteria for COVID-19 disease outcomes, applicable in different operational contexts of reemployment.

Keywords: long-term COVID; risk assessment; outcomes for COVID patients; occupational disease; worker evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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