Open AccessPreferences for Expedited Partner Therapy Among Adolescents in an Urban Pediatric Emergency Department
Author(s) -
Zohar Shamash,
Marina Catallozzi,
Peter Dayan,
Lauren S. Chernick
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pediatric emergency care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.449
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1535-1815
pISSN - 0749-5161
DOI - 10.1097/pec.0000000000001746
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , partner notification , family medicine , condom , thematic analysis , emergency contraception , ethnic group , sexual partner , qualitative research , preference , gonorrhea , population , psychiatry , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family planning , environmental health , social science , syphilis , sociology , anthropology , economics , research methodology , microeconomics
Expedited partner therapy (EPT) refers to treating sexual partners of patients with sexually transmitted infections by providing prescriptions or medications to give to their partners. Expedited partner therapy is not routinely prescribed in the emergency department (ED). Our objective was to explore adolescent preferences for EPT use in the ED.