Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in Adolescents: Current Practices in the Hospital Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adolescents are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and evidence supports expanding sexual health services to the hospital setting. Because STI testing practices in the hospital setting are poorly understood, we sought to describe current STI testing practices among adolescents seen in children's hospitals.

Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of adolescents (14-18 years old) from 45 children's hospitals in 2015-2016, excluding visits with a billing code for sexual abuse/assault. We calculated rates of STI testing and investigated differences in STI testing by patient and hospital characteristics using generalized linear mixed modeling.

Results

Of the 541,714 adolescent encounters, 59,158 (10.9%) underwent STI testin

SUBMITTER: Masonbrink AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269275 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature