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PURPOSE

Due to the trend of internationalization, travel clinics have been established in various regions of Japan to provide vaccinations and prescriptions of prophylactic medication to travelers. However, there is a lack of data on travelers’ characteristics and their vaccine needs in Japan.

This study aimed to understand the characteristics of pre-travel consultations in Japan by collecting data on the contents of travel consultations, including vaccines and prophylactic medication, provided in response to travel details at multi-center travel clinics.

Another objective is to investigate standard practices for the content of pre-travel consultations and to promote the equalization of the quality of travel consultations in Japan. To assist in equalizing quality, we will create a medical support tool that combines the obtained data. At the same time, we will develop a web-based tool that can provide support for pre-travel consultations. We hope to compare our practices with those of other institutions and review our practices through this tool.

History

April 2017
Research: “Establishment of a multi-center network for a pre-travel consultation registry and development and use of medical support tools (Principal investigator: Kei Yamamoto),” started and supported by National Center for Global Health and Medicines.
February 2018
Registration started in six institutes.
April 2020
Continued research as a special project of the National Center for Global Health and Medicines.

Subject:

Subjects were clients who came to the research institute for pre-travel consultation.

Exclusion criteria:

  1. Clients who do not plan to travel abroad.
  2. Clients who have received pre-travel consultation at institutions other than the research institute and do not wish to receive it at the research institute.

Registered facility conditions:

  1. General hospitals that offer pre-travel consultation.
  2. At least 50 new cases of pre-travel consultation per year.

Informed consent:

Substitute for obtaining consent by disclosing information in a public information document and opting out.

Methods:

Register information obtained from regular pre-travel consultation in a proprietary web registry

Research institutes (Prefecture) on 1 July 2024:

[Active] National Center for Global Health and Medicine (Tokyo); Nara Seibu Hospital (Nara);Osaka City General Hospital (Osaka);  Shinshu University Hospital (Nagano);  Rinku General Medical Center (Osaka); Kyushu University Hospital (Fukuoka); Tottori University Hospital (Tottori); Sapporo City General Hospital (Hokkaido); Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital (Yamanashi); Fukuyama City Hospital (Hiroshima); Aso Iizuka Hospital (Fukuoka), Toyama University Hospital (Toyama); Nara Medical University Hospital (Nara);  Oita kouseiren Tsurumi Hospital (Oita); Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital (Osaka); Tsukuba Medical Center (Ibaraki)
[Inactive] Kenwakai Otemachi Hospital (Fukuoka); Kyoto City Hospital (Kyoto); Japanese Red Cross Society Wakayama Medical Center (Wakayama); Hamamatsu Medical Center (Shizuoka);

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