Challenges to providing pre-travel care for travellers visiting friends and relatives: an audit of a specialist travel medicine clinic

Kate Rowe; Nadia Chaves; Karin Leder

doi:10.1093/jtm/tax038

Challenges to providing pre-travel care for travellers visiting friends and relatives: an audit of a specialist travel medicine clinic

J Travel Med. 2017 Sep 1;24(5). doi: 10.1093/jtm/tax038.

Authors

Kate Rowe¹, Nadia Chaves², Karin Leder³

Affiliations

¹ Alfred Health, 55 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3004.
² Department of General Medicine, Alfred Health and Co-Health, Melbourne, Australia.
³ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3004 and Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052.

PMID: 28931130
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tax038

Abstract

Travellers visiting friends and relatives (VFRs) often have complex pre-travel needs. We identified the characteristics, destinations, vaccinations and pre-travel advice provided to VFRs and compared these with non-VFR travellers. The significant differences we found suggest that future research should focus on improving the uptake of recommended interventions in VFR travellers.

Keywords: VFR; pre-travel care; travel; travel medicine; visiting friends and relatives.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Australia
Case-Control Studies
Child
Child, Preschool
Databases, Factual
Endemic Diseases / prevention & control
Female
Health Services Accessibility*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Medical Audit
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Travel*
Vaccination
Young Adult