Risk assessment in travel medicine: How to obtain, interpret, and use risk data for informing pre-travel advice

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-20

  Leder, Karin ^a,b   Steffen, Robert ^c   Cramer, Jakob P ^d,e   Greenaway, Christina ^f  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Victorian Infectious Disease Service Melbourne Health ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; EMPORIATRICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TRAVEL; PROCEDURES; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 84932135613     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12170     Document Type: Review

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