Fig. 1.

Algorithm used for the treatment of patients with suspected and confirmed scabies infestations. Four separate areas (check-in/ triage area, examination area, treatment area, and check-out area) involving different health-care providers were used at the different steps of the algorithm. Patients with neither symptoms nor signs were assigned a green label, those with itch only a blue label and patients with itch and skin lesion typical for scabies infestation a red label