Guidelines for the prevention of travel-associated illness in older adults

International travel to the developing world is becoming more common in elderly patients (defined here as individuals greater than 65 years old). When providing pre-travel counseling, providers must appreciate the changing physiology, comorbidities, immunity and pharmacokinetics associated with the...

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Autores principales: Lee, Tida K., Hutter, Jack N., Masel, Jennifer, Joya, Christie, Whitman, Timothy J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5531015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-017-0054-0
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author Lee, Tida K.
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Masel, Jennifer
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description International travel to the developing world is becoming more common in elderly patients (defined here as individuals greater than 65 years old). When providing pre-travel counseling, providers must appreciate the changing physiology, comorbidities, immunity and pharmacokinetics associated with the aging process to prepare elderly patients for the stressors of international travel. These guidelines present an evidence-based approach to pre-travel counseling, immunization, and pharmacology concerns unique to elderly patients seeking care in a travel clinic setting.
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spelling pubmed-55310152017-09-07 Guidelines for the prevention of travel-associated illness in older adults Lee, Tida K. Hutter, Jack N. Masel, Jennifer Joya, Christie Whitman, Timothy J. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines Review International travel to the developing world is becoming more common in elderly patients (defined here as individuals greater than 65 years old). When providing pre-travel counseling, providers must appreciate the changing physiology, comorbidities, immunity and pharmacokinetics associated with the aging process to prepare elderly patients for the stressors of international travel. These guidelines present an evidence-based approach to pre-travel counseling, immunization, and pharmacology concerns unique to elderly patients seeking care in a travel clinic setting. BioMed Central 2017-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5531015/ /pubmed/28883980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-017-0054-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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