Selective screening for chlamydial infection: which criteria to use?
Selective screening for chlamydial infection: which criteria to use?
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衣原体感染的选择性筛查:使用哪些标准?
DOI:
10.1016/s0749-3797(99)00146-4
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Leone,PA
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文献类型:
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作者:
Miller,WC;Hoffman,IF;Owen-O'Dowd,J;McPherson,JT;Privette,A;Schmitz,JL;Woodlief,G;Leone,PA
BackgroundScreening sexually active women for Chlamydia trachomatis is necessary to detect asymptomatic infections. Selective screening is a common strategy because universal screening is too costly in many settings. In order to guide local programs in the choice of selective screening criteria, we examined the performance of previously proposed screening criteria for C trachomatis.MethodsA clinic-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in public family planning and sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in ten counties in North Carolina. Women (n = 4471 in family planning and n = 2201 in STD clinics) undergoing pelvic examination were enrolled consecutively. Nine sets of screening criteria, including age alone, were compared using sensitivity, specificity, number of tests required and receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) analysis. All women underwent testing with ligase chain reaction assay of cervical specimens to identify C trachomatis infection.ResultsThe prevalence of C trachomatis was 7.8% and 11.0% in family planning and STD clinics, respectively. The sensitivities of published criteria ranged from 0.50 to 0.97. Specificities ranged from 0.05 to 0.66. In family planning clinics, the best performing criteria would detect 84% of infections while screening 51% of women. In STD clinics, the same criteria would detect 83% of infections but require testing 67% of women. Testing women aged ≤22 would detect 77% of infections in family planning and 74% of infections in STD clinics, while testing 51% and 48% of the women, respectively.ConclusionsWhen site-specific criteria cannot be developed, age alone is an acceptable strategy for selective screening for chlamydial infection.
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