A painful journey to antivenom: The therapeutic itinerary of snakebite patients in the Brazilian Amazon (The QUALISnake Study).

• Main Authors: Joseir Saturnino Cristino (Author), Guilherme Maciel Salazar (Author), Vinícius Azevedo Machado (Author), Eduardo Honorato (Author), Altair Seabra Farias (Author), João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci (Author), Alexandre Vilhena Silva Neto (Author), Marcus Lacerda (Author), Fan Hui Wen (Author), Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro (Author), Jacqueline Almeida Gonçalves Sachett (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Access to antivenoms is not guarranteed for vulnerable populations that inhabit remote areas in the Amazon. The study of therapeutic itineraries (TI) for treatment of snakebites would support strategies to provide timely access to users. A TI is the set of processes by which individuals adhere to ce...