Healthcare globalization and medical tourism

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1642-1643

  Sadlier, C ^a   Bergin, C ^a   Merry, C ^a,b,c,d  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHICKENPOX; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL TOURISM; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RUBELLA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREENING; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL TOURISM;

EID: 84900433645     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu143     Document Type: Letter

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