Quality assessment in a travel clinic: a study of travelers' knowledge about malaria.

Background: Quality in health care delivery is considered essential and should be expected for all who deliver health care. We were not able to identify in Portugal any previous studies that assessed the quality of travel medicine consultations. The aims of this study was to assess the impact of travel health advice on travelers' knowledge and the quality of the outcome of the travel consultations at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Portugal.

Pharmacists and travel advice for tropics in Lisbon (Portugal).

Background: In Portugal, little is known about the quality of advice given to international travelers by pharmacists. The aim of this study was to determine pharmacists' training, experience, and interest in travel medicine and to assess the technical quality of the information given.

Methods: We sent a postal questionnaire to all pharmacies in the Lisbon area.