Open AccessGoing Off Grid: Modeling an Automated Record Search to Process Electronically Reported Reactive Nontreponemal Syphilis Tests
Author(s) -
James Matthias,
Gayle Keller,
Susan Cha,
Craig Wilson,
Thomas A. Peterman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000000836
Subject(s) - medicine , syphilis , process (computing) , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , programming language , computer science
Before searching prior records, sexually transmitted disease programs use syphilis reactor grids to exclude some reactive nontreponemal test results (RNTs) based on patient age, gender, and test titer. We propose a new algorithm that starts with comparing RNTs to previous syphilis nontreponemal tests and current treponemal test results.