The aim of our descriptive study was to quantify the disease burden leading to hospital-based care, repatriation or death in Dutch travelers during their stay in a foreign country, including Europe. The outcome of this study could be…
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Source
Brief title
Condition
- Infections - pathogen unspecified
Synonym
Health condition
Elderly, travellers, hospitalization, death, repatriation, ouderen, reizigers, ziekenhuisopname, overlijden, repatriëring
Research involving
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Reason for hospitalization and/or repatriation and death (exacerbation or new illness), stratified per age group, gender and diagnosis.
Secondary outcome
- Type of traveller
- Travel purpose
- Area of travel destination (western industrialised countries, developing countries)
- Co-morbidity
- Medication use
- Country of hospitalization, repatriation or death
- Length of hospital stay
- Types of repatriation used (stratified per destination)
- Mortality
Background summary
Travellers can experience a variety of health problems during travel. Sometimes hospitalization or even repatriation is needed. Rarely it happens that a traveller dies while staying abroad. In almost all cases, an alarm center will be contacted for support and arranging administrative issues.
Study objective
The outcome of this study could be used as background information to support the risk-based pre-travel health advice worldwide, which ideally should not be restricted to tropical diseases alone.
Study design
Intervention
No intervention (retrospective case record study)
Jessica A. Vlot
Albinusdreef 2
Leiden 2333 ZA
The Netherlands
071-5265684
j.a.vlot@lumc.nl
Jessica A. Vlot
Albinusdreef 2
Leiden 2333 ZA
The Netherlands
071-5265684
j.a.vlot@lumc.nl
Age
Inclusion criteria
Dutch nationality or residency in the Netherlands
Exclusion criteria
None
Design
Recruitment
IPD sharing statement
metc-ldd@lumc.nl
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In other registers
Register | ID |
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NTR-new | NL5377 |
NTR-old | NTR5478 |
Other | : C15.067 METC Leiden University Medical Center |
Summary results
Conclusions: Not only communicable diseases, but also injuries and chronic diseases (in particular cardiovascular diseases) frequently affected travelers’ health while staying abroad and frequently necessitated hospital-based care. This should be addressed during the pre-travel counseling."