Improved effectiveness of partner notification for patients with sexuaUy transmitted infections: systematic review  

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Trelle, Sven ; Shang, Aijing ; Nartey, Linda ; Cassell, Jackie A ; Low, Nicola

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 334 no. 7589 (Feb. 2007), page 354.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.04 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Objective To examine the effectiveness of methods to improve partner notification by patient referral (index patient has responsibility for informing sex partners of their exposure to a sexually transmitted infection). Design Systematic review of randomised trials of any intervention to supplement simple patient referral. Data sources Seven electronic databases searched Oanuary 1990 to December 2005) without language restriction, and reference lists of retrieved articles. Review methods Selection of trials, data extraction, and quality assessment were done by two independent reviewers. The primary outcome was a reduction of incidence or prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in index patients. If this was not reported data were extracted according to a hierarchy of secondary outcomes: number of partners treated; number of partners tested or testing positive; and number of partners notified, located, or elicited. Random effects meta-analysis was carried out when appropriate. Results 14 trials were included with 12389 women and men diagnosed as having gonorrhoea, chlamydia,

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