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Chlamydia trachomatis: opportunistic screening in primary care.
Following the publication of the Chief Medical Officer's report on chlamydial screening, we identified the sexual health of young women as an area for concern. As part of our review we decided to opportunistically search for chlamydial genital infections using a non-invasive technique. Sexually active women under 25 years of age were invited to submit a first void urine sample for polymerase ch...
متن کاملThe cost effectiveness of opportunistic chlamydia screening in England.
BACKGROUND/AIM The National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) is being implemented in England. This study aims to estimate the cost effectiveness of (a) the NCSP strategy (annual screening offer to men and women aged under 25 years) and (b) alternative screening strategies. METHODS A stochastic, individual based, dynamic sexual network model was combined with a cost effectiveness model to ...
متن کاملModelling the healthcare costs of an opportunistic chlamydia screening programme.
OBJECTIVES To estimate the average cost per screening offer, cost per testing episode and cost per chlamydia positive episode for an opportunistic chlamydia screening programme (including partner management), and to explore the uncertainty of parameter assumptions, based on the costs to the healthcare system. METHODS A decision tree was constructed and parameterised using empirical data from ...
متن کاملScreening for Chlamydia trachomatis among Infertile Women Using PCR Method
Background & objectives: Chlamydia trachomatis is a gram negative bacterium and chlamydia infection, as a curable infection, is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). With regard to the essential role of chlamydia in infertility, the study of the prevalence of asymptomatic cases is precious. The aim of this study was to determine of the prevalence of chlamydia trachomatis...
متن کاملComparing cost effectiveness of screening women for Chlamydia trachomatis in systematic and opportunistic approaches.
charts in this study was approved by a research ethics committee at Bellevue Hospital. All patients received NVP + EFV at standard doses. The lower limit of quantitation was determined at 50 HIV RNA copies/ml using Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor (RNA) (Roche Diagnostics, Branchburg, NJ, USA). Median baseline values were: viral load 33 900 copies/ml (range 3100–750 000 copies/ml) and CD4+ count 19...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1471-1893,0000-0000
DOI: 10.1783/0000000052972979