title: Breathing hospital air can make you sick.
abstract: Indoor air quality has deteriorated so much since the 1970s oil shortage and subsequent energy-efficient construction of buildings that people are becoming seriously ill by just breathing the indoor air. This is a problem with all industrial buildings and hospital staff are at particular risk. There are various things that hospital managers from different departments can do to make the air safe for staff and patients to breathe.
authors.affiliation: Delaware Psychiatric Center, New Castle, Delaware, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brownson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018877:Sick Building Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014691:Ventilation