Integrating travel history information into routine medical assessments could help stem the rapidly widening COVID-19 epidemic, as well as future pandemics, experts said (Ann Intern Med 2020 Mar 3. [Epub ahead of print]).
It’s time to add travel history to routine information such as temperature and blood pressure collected in electronic health records, according to Trish Perl, MD, MSc, the chief of infectious diseases and geographic medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas.