Just as Canadians family physicians are challenged by the global nature of medical tourism and pluralism around cultures of care, destination country physicians are likely to face these challenges as well.
There were also very limited community based rehabilitation (CBR) centres for stroke in this country, which served as a transfer of care destination for patients following hospital-based rehabilitation.
These standardized criteria might be used in research studies examining EMS dispatch and response (e.g., dispatch triage protocols, alternative response configurations), and EMS treatment and transport (e.g., field triage protocols, alternative care destinations).
Besides, the acute care destinations varied, as well as the selection of the LTC population and LTC facility-level factors.
However, documentation of advertised health care destinations provides insight into the partnerships or networks medical tourism companies choose to market to their prospective client base.
Finally, to date scholarship on medical tourism companies has examined companies currently engaged in the business of sending clients to international health care destinations.
Someone using the tools of investigative journalism might discover that companies do not have business relations with all the facilities that they mention as international health care destinations.
This article addresses these concerns and opens new avenues for the study of medical tourism companies, medical travelers, and international health care destinations.
Differences in acute care destinations and nursing home populations included in the studies may also affect the rates of inappropriate admissions.
To date, researchers appear particularly interested in studying companies that promote medical travel to India, Thailand, and other distant, "global" health care destinations.
