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Expedited Partner Therapy for Adolescents Diagnosed with Chlamydia or Gonorrhea: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Journal of Adolescent HealthVol. 45Issue 3p303–309Published in issue: September, 2009- Gale R. Burstein
- Allison Eliscu
- Kanti Ford
- Matthew Hogben
- Tonya Chaffee
- Diane Straub
- Taraneh Shafii
- Jill Huppert
Cited in Scopus: 42Chlamydia and gonorrhea, the most frequently reported sexually transmitted infections (STIs), present substantial public health challenges among adolescents. Although these infections are easily treated with antibiotics, many adolescents are reinfected within 3–6 months, usually because their partners remain untreated. The standard approaches to notifying and treating a partner of an STI-infected patient are patient referral, whereby the patient notifies his/her partners to seek care, and provider referral, whereby the provider or public health disease intervention specialist notifies the partner and directs him/her toward treatment.
