Open AccessAn Intervention to Improve Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing Among Adolescents in Primary Care
Author(s) -
Margaret M Tomcho,
Yingbo Lou,
Sonja O’Leary,
Deborah Rinehart,
Tara Thomas-Gale,
Claudia Douglas,
Florence J Wu,
Lara Penny,
Steven G. Federico,
Holly M Frost
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2020-027508
Subject(s) - medicine , gonorrhea , chlamydia , intervention (counseling) , family medicine , logistic regression , ambulatory , health care , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing , immunology , economics , economic growth
Rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea among adolescents continue to rise. We aimed to evaluate if a universal testing program for chlamydia and gonorrhea improved testing rates in an urban general pediatric clinic and an urban family medicine clinic within a system of federally qualified health care centers and evaluated the feasibility, cost, and logistic challenges of expanding implementation across 28 primary care clinics within a federally qualified health care centers system.