Pre-COVID-19 international travel and admission to hospital when back home: travel behavior, carriage of highly resistant microorganisms, and risk perception of patients admitted to a large tertiary care hospital.
Anne F Voor In 't HoltAdriënne S van der SchoorKees MourikNikolaos StrepisCorné H W KlaassenMargreet C VosJuliëtte A SeverinPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2022)
We identified that half of admitted patients to a large tertiary care hospital travelled abroad in the last year, with only a small percentage outside Europe. We discuss several screening strategies and propose a strategy of screening and preemptive isolation of patients who travelled to Asia or Africa in the 2 months before their hospital admission; a strategy that patients would support.