Health risks encountered by Dutch medical students during an elective in the tropics and the quality and comprehensiveness of pre-and post-travel care

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sharafeldin, Elhadi ^a   Soonawala, Darius ^a   Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^a   Hack, Evelien ^a   Visser, Leo G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULIN TEST; VACCINATION; VIREMIA;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRAVEL MEDICINE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULIN TEST; VACCINATION; VIREMIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649592914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-89     Document Type: Article

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