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Fig. 4 | Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines

Fig. 4

From: Characteristics and potential quality indicators for evaluating pre-travel consultations in Japan hospitals: the Japan Pretravel consultation registry (J-PRECOR)

Fig. 4

Risk classification of mosquito-borne diseases and interventions implemented during pre-travel consultations by each collaborated hospital. The numbers in the legend correspond to the “Hospital number.”. A: The prescription rate of malaria prophylaxis in clients traveling for < 56 days is categorized by the risk of falciparum malaria. The risk categories, in order, from one to eight, are the incidence of falciparum malaria per 1000 persons: “no risk”; “less than 0.1”; “0.1 to less than 1.0”; “1.0 to less than 10”; “10 to less than 50”; “50 to less than 100”; “100 to less than 250”; and “250 or more.” Of the 5124 patients included in the validation, data from 403 patients (eight facilities) were excluded because they could not be classified into a risk category. B: Implementation of mosquito control advice about mosquito repellant, categorized by the risk of dengue fever: The risk categories, in order, from zero to three, are classified according to the reference 12 dengue risk categories: “no or unknown risk”; “risk varies based on region”; “sporadic/uncertain”; and “frequent/continuous.”. * Refer to the supplementary materials for the country names (ISO 3166-1 codes, Alpha-3 code) included

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