What qualities are most important to making a point of care test desirable for clinicians and others offering sexually transmitted infection testing?

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the possible effects of different levels of attributes of a point-of-care test (POCT) on sexually transmitted infection (STI) professionals' decisions regarding an ideal POCT for STI(s).

Methods

An online survey was designed based on a large-scale in-depth focus discussion study among STI experts and professionals. The last section of the survey "build your own POCT" was designed by employing the discrete choice experiment approach. Practicing clinicians from two venues, STI-related international conference attendees and U.S. STD clinic clinicians were invited to participate in the survey. Conditional logistical regression modeling was used for data analysis.

Results

Overall, 256 subjects took the online survey with 218 (85%) completing it. M

SUBMITTER: Hsieh YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3084795 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature