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ArticleTropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines2019

Retrospective analysis of older travellers attending a specialist travel health clinic.

Milad Darrat, Gerard T Flaherty

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Article in Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Milad Darrat1School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-0617-0911
Gerard T Flaherty1School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · IE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOlder people represent a significant proportion of overseas travellers. The epidemiology of older international travellers is not well described in the literature. This study aims to identify demographics, travel characteristics and the medical profile of older travellers seeking pre-travel health advice in a specialist travel medicine clinic.

methodsRecords of travellers aged 60 years and older attending the Tropical Medical Bureau clinic in Galway, Ireland between 2014 and 2018 were examined. Descriptive and inferential.analysis of data was performed.

resultsA total of 337 older travellers sought pre-travel health advice during the study period. The mean age of the cohort was 65.42 (±10) years. Most of the travellers (

conclusionsThis study provides an insight into the demographics, travel characteristics, and medical profile of elderly travellers seeking advice at a large travel clinic in Ireland. A wide range of travel destinations, diseases and medication use was reported among this group of travellers, which may enable travel medicine physicians to provide more tailored advice and to more appropriately counsel older travellers.

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ElderlyOlder travellerSpecial group of travellersTravelTravel medicine

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PMID31548898
PMCPMC6751636
OpenAlexW2974765104

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