Identification of possible evidences of Sick Building Syndrome in the dependencies of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

Author

Santos, Maria C. ; Schwartz, F.P.

Author_Institution

Curso de Mestrado em Poder Legislativo-Camara dos Deputados, Brasilia, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

7-12 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This study raised the most frequent clinical diagnoses recorded in the emergency room of the Medical Department of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. The main objective was to identify possible evidence of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) within this institution. The method used consisted in the extraction of information contained in electronic medical records of emergency patients. It was found that more than 50% of occurrences are concentrated in only thirteen disease codes which are also related to SBS. Further studies are being conducted to evaluate whether the causes of illness are really related to SBS.

Keywords

buildings (structures); environmental factors; health and safety; medical disorders; Brazilian Chamber of Deputies; Medical Department; Sick Building Syndrome; clinical diagnosis; disease codes; electronic medical records; emergency patients; emergency room; Buildings; Conferences; Couplings; Diseases; IEEE catalog; Scattering; Building Syndrome; clinical diagnoses; emergency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE), 2014 Pan American

Conference_Location

Brasilia

ISSN

2327-8161

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3554-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAHCE.2014.6849626

Filename

6849626