Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Rates of Routine Chlamydia Trachomatis Screening in Female Adolescents Seeking Primary Preventive Care.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To determine the impact of a multicomponent quality improvement (QI) intervention on Chlamydia trachomatis screening for young women in primary care.

Design

Observational cohort analysis.

Setting

Urban primary care site providing adolescent primary and confidential sexual health care.

Participants

Female adolescents aged 15-19 years.

Interventions

From December 2016 to April 2018, we designed and implemented a multiphase QI intervention. The final intervention, beginning March 2017, consisted of the following at all adolescent well visits: (1) dual registration for well and confidential sexual health encounters; (2) urine collection during the rooming process; and (3) electronic health record-based prompts for chlamydia screening.

Main

SUBMITTER: Wood SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6413877 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature