Doctors, patients and influenza-like illness: clinicians or patients at risk?

BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers can transmit influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) to patients and vice versa. However, the magnitude of this problem in the healthcare system as a whole is unknown. Using population-based administrative health data, we tested the hypothesis of a temporal association of ILI diagnosis among clinicians and their patients. METHODS: Healthcare providers under study included physicians (85%) and a variety of …