Improved effectiveness of partner notification for patients with sexually transmitted infections: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effectiveness of methods to improve partner notification by patient referral (index patient has responsibility for informing sex partners of their exposure to a sexually transmitted infection).

Design

Systematic review of randomised trials of any intervention to supplement simple patient referral.

Data sources

Seven electronic databases searched (January 1990 to December 2005) without language restriction, and reference lists of retrieved articles.

Review methods

Selection of trials, data extraction, and quality assessment were done by two independent reviewers. The primary outcome was a reduction of incidence or prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in index patients. If this was not reported data were extracted according to a

SUBMITTER: Trelle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1801006 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature