Pre-travel advice at a crossroad: Medical preparedness of travellers to South and Southeast-Asia - The Hamburg Airport Survey.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.07.008
Abstract: BACKGROUND Specific travel-related recommendations exist for the prevention or self-treatment of infectious diseases contracted by travellers to the tropics. In the current study, we assessed the medical preparedness per these recommendations, focusing on whether travellers… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; medical preparedness; pre travel; travel ... See more keywords
Ensuring the quality of pre-travel prescribing
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DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa025
Abstract: Non-physician healthcare practitioners are increasingly providing pre-travel care, including completing risk assessments and prescribing medications and vaccines. While this increases pre-travel care access, the quality of this care must be ensured. Doing so requires translation… read more here.
Keywords: ensuring quality; pre travel; travel care; travel ... See more keywords
Pre-travel vaccine information needs, attitudes, drivers of uptake and the role for decision aids in travel medicine.
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DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad056
Abstract: BACKGROUND Many travellers do not receive vaccines pre-travel. Tools such as vaccine decision aids could support informed vaccine decision-making. We aimed to characterise Australians' pre-travel vaccine attitudes, behaviours and information needs and examine the role… read more here.
Keywords: travel; pre travel; travel vaccine; decision ... See more keywords
Use of pre-travel vaccine-preventable disease serology as a screening tool to identify patients in need of pre-travel vaccination: a retrospective audit
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DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tax011
Abstract: Background Vaccination is a safe and effective public health intervention that not only protects individual travellers from vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), but prevents them from becoming a source of disease in their destination and on their… read more here.
Keywords: vaccine preventable; serology; disease; pre travel ... See more keywords
Standard pre-travel consultation versus shorter consultation combined with smartphone support: a randomized controlled trial.
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DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taz025
Abstract: Immediate and long-term recalls of a pre-travel consultation are suboptimal. We aimed to assess the role of online consultation for travellers. We randomized travellers into two study groups. In the intervention arm, each traveller was… read more here.
Keywords: smartphone support; consultation; pre travel; travel consultation ... See more keywords
Factors Affecting Pre-Travel Health Seeking Behaviour and Adherence to Pre-Travel Health Advice: A Systematic Review.
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DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taz059
Abstract: BACKGROUND Recent years have seen unprecedented growth in international travel. Travellers are at high risk for acquiring infections while abroad and potentially bringing these infections back to their home country. There are many ways to… read more here.
Keywords: pta; pre travel; travel health; travel ... See more keywords
Characteristics and potential quality indicators for evaluating pre-travel consultations in Japan hospitals: the Japan Pretravel consultation registry (J-PRECOR)
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DOI: 10.1186/s40794-021-00160-4
Abstract: Background Awareness of pre-travel consultations (PTCs) and prevention methods for overseas travel-related diseases, and the understanding of PTCs among Japanese travelers and medical professionals remains low in Japan. A multicenter registry was established to examine… read more here.
Keywords: ptcs; travel; pre travel; travel consultations ... See more keywords