Abstract:
:Most travel medical care is provided by patients' primary care physicians; only 10% of international travelers visit a travel clinic. The main purposes for travel include vacationing, visiting friends and family, business, and for educational purposes. The purposes of the pretravel consultation are to estimate risk and provide recommendations to mitigate risk.
journal_name
Prim Carejournal_title
Primary careauthors
Lohr J,Fredrick NB,Helm L,Cho Jdoi
10.1016/j.pop.2018.05.012subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-09-01 00:00:00pages
541-554issue
3eissn
0095-4543issn
1558-299Xpii
S0095-4543(18)30049-6journal_volume
45pub_type
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