An Intervention to Improve Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing Among Adolescents in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT: 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. A universal testing quality improvement program for male and female patient 14 to 18 years old was implemented in a general pediatrics and family medicine clinic in Denver, Colorado. The intervention was evaluated by using a controlled pre-post quasi-experimental design. The difference in testing rates due to the inte

SUBMITTER: Tomcho MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972200 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature