Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Aims

Primarily examine the exposures, institutional outcomes and impacts of presenteeism or sickness attendance of hospital frontline employees (nurses and doctors)

Publications that examine population-wide findings, burden of disease and patient-related

Setting

Hospital in-patient (primary, secondary and tertiary settings)

Outpatient, rehabilitation and nursing homes

Population

Full time frontline healthcare workers (doctors and nurses).

Administrative-related staff, residents, student trainees and other healthcare professionals (e.g. radiographers, laboratory technicians)

Design

Cross-sectional or cohort research design randomized controlled trials

Qualitative, questionnaire validation studies

Modifiers

Organizational and individual psychosocial exposures of presenteeism outcomes of presenteeism financial costs of presenteeism intervention programs on presenteeism

Non-modifiable personal traits (e.g. personality), population disease burden