Impact of risk-based sexually transmitted infection screening in the emergency department.

Fahd A Ahmad Kayleigh FischerHongjie GuThomas C BaileyDonna B Jeffe Christopher R CarpenterPhilip R O Payne

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2022)

Our program facilitated STI testing in the ED and identified many adolescents with STIs, even when their ED complaint was for unrelated reasons. More rigorous implementation is needed to determine the impact of deployment of ACASI to all eligible adolescents and addressing barriers to accepting STI testing recommendations.

Keyphrases

emergency department
young adults
men who have sex with men
physical activity
quality improvement
primary care
healthcare
clinical practice
cord blood
adverse drug