Rayan Sharka
Factors associated with predoctoral and graduate dental students' intention to care for elderly patients: A cross-sectional study
Journal of dental education
incidence sexually transmitted infections sti increased united states 20172021 limited data describing sti cotesting practices prevalence sti coinfections emergency departments ed study aimed describe prevalence cotesting coinfection hiv hepatitis c virus hcv syphilis gonorrhea chlamydia large academic ed singlecenter retrospective crosssectional study ed patients tested hiv hcv syphilis gonorrhea chlamydia november 27 2018may 26 2019 2018 study institution implemented edbased infectious diseases screening program patient tested gonorrheachlamydia eligible optout syphilis screening patient 1864 years blood drawn clinical purpose eligible optout hiv hcv screening analyzed data ed patients 13 years undergone sti testing outcomes interest included prevalence sti testingcotesting prevalence sti infectioncoinfection describe data simple descriptive statistics study period 30767 ed encounters patients 13 years mean age 43 14 years 52 female 7866 26 tested least one hiv hcv syphilis gonorrhea chlamydia observed following testing frequencies prevalence infection hcv 7539 50 hiv 7359 09 gonorrhea 574 61 chlamydia 574 98 syphilis 420 105 infectious etiologies universal testing protocols hiv hcv made majority sti testing patients syphilis coinfection chlamydia 21 944 hiv 9 444 high patients gonorrhea coinfection chlamydia 23 835 syphilis 9 335 high patients chlamydia coinfection syphilis 16 956 gonorrhea 14 856 high patients hcv low coinfection proportions 2 prevalence sti cotesting low among patients clinical suspicion stis however coinfection prevalence high several coinfection pairings future efforts needed improve sti cotesting rates among highrisk individuals