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What steps do you take to ensure that partners of patients diagnosed with chlamydia receive treatment?
Do you take steps beyond recommending to the patient that their partner gets treated? Do you commonly provide an antibiotic prescription for the partners of patients diagnosed with chlamydia who are unwilling to see a physician for evaluation?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
This is an important question. A lot of "re-infections" occur because partners aren't treated.In my clinical practice, and from a public health perspective, we really try to get the partner(s) into *our clinic* to get treated. We have a walk-in STI program and try our best to get the patient to tell...
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Answer from: at Community Practice
Partner notification and treatment are aspects of STI control that deserve more time and attention during medical school and residency training. The traditional approach had been to ask your patient in whom you diagnosed the STI (chlamydia, in this case) to inform their partner that they need to be ...
Answer from: at Community Practice
In principle, partners should be referred for in-person care, diagnostic testing, and treatment with doxycycline. Expedited partner therapy (EPT) -- i.e. arranging for treatment of partners sight unseen -- is an appropriate option when in-person care isn't practical or acceptable. (I know a thing or...