The Number of Interviews Needed to Yield New Syphilis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Cases Among Partners of People Diagnosed With Syphilis, North Carolina, 2015
| العنوان: | The Number of Interviews Needed to Yield New Syphilis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Cases Among Partners of People Diagnosed With Syphilis, North Carolina, 2015 |
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| المؤلفون: | Jason Maxwell, Anna B. Cope, Erika Samoff, Victoria Mobley, Francina Thomas |
| المصدر: | Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 44:451-456 |
| بيانات النشر: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Microbiology (medical), Retrospective review, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, 030505 public health, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Retrospective cohort study, Dermatology, medicine.disease, medicine.disease_cause, Confidence interval, Surgery, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Infectious Diseases, medicine, Syphilis, 030212 general & internal medicine, 0305 other medical science, business, Early syphilis, Contact tracing, Patient factors |
| الوصف: | Compare syphilis investigation yield among patient groups using number needed to interview. GOAL To increase investigation efficiency. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of North Carolina 2015 syphilis investigations, using the number of cases needed to interview (NNTI) and the total number of cases and contacts needed to interview (TNTI) to compare yield of new syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses between patient groups. RESULTS We reviewed 1646 early syphilis cases and 2181 contacts; these yielded 241 new syphilis cases (NNTI, 6.9; TNTI, 16.4) and 38 new human immunodeficiency virus cases (NNTI, 43). Interviews of women (prevalence difference [PD] = 6%, 95% confidence interval [CI], 12-16), patients 1:16 (PD = 5%, 95% CI, 1-9) yielded more new syphilis cases in our adjusted model; no other patient factors increased investigation yield. CONCLUSIONS The NNTI and TNTI are useful measures of efficiency. Prioritizing early syphilis investigation by gender, rapid plasmin reagin titer, and age provides small increases in efficiency; no other factors increased efficiency. |
| تدمد: | 1537-4521 0148-5717 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/olq.0000000000000637 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::22670109847b5192bd7aaebcace40713 https://doi.org/10.1097/olq.0000000000000637 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........22670109847b5192bd7aaebcace40713 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15374521 01485717 |
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| DOI: | 10.1097/olq.0000000000000637 |