Within months, it had sold four hundred thousand copies and won the Booker Prize, which had never before been given to a non-expatriate Indian — an Indian who actually lived in India — or to an Indian woman.
Patients were included who presented ill to a GeoSentinel clinic after either expatriate or non-expatriate travel.
* Comparing expatriate to non-expatriate, if p-value < 0.01, denoted a for Africa, b - Asia-Pacific, c - Latin America, d - Other.
Because both expatriate and non-expatriate nurses assume primary responsibility for patient care in a ward, representative samples from both groups of nurses were selected to participate in the study.
* χ 2 p-value < 0.01, comparing expatriates with non-expatriates.
Our study included 2,883 expatriates and 11,910 non-expatriates who visited GeoSentinel clinics ill after travel.
Our study found that expatriates overall had lower PM for acute diarrhea and bacterial GI disease than non-expatriates.
We found no cases of Japanese encephalitis, cholera, or meningococcal disease among the 14,793 ill returned expatriates and non-expatriates.
Proportionate morbidity (PM) was expressed as the number of patients with a specific syndrome or diagnosis per 1,000 ill returned expatriates and non-expatriates.
This analysis compares 2,883 ill returned expatriates with 11,910 ill non-expatriates to elucidate differences in travel patterns and illness seen after travel.
In contrast, volunteer expatriates had higher PM for anxiety/stress, infectious mononucleosis, and parasitic infections (filariasis, amebiasis, and strongyloidiasis) compared to volunteer non-expatriates.
