Patient-delivered partner therapy for chlamydial infections: practices, attitudes, and knowledge of california family planning providers.

Background: Treatment of sex partners is a core strategy for the control of chlamydia. Innovations such as patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) are effective in preventing repeat chlamydial infections, but providers' practice and perceptions of PDPT have not been adequately evaluated. This evaluation describes family planning providers' practices, knowledge, attitudes, and barriers regarding PDPT and assesses factors associated with routine use.

Group training programs and self-reported injury risk in female marathoners.

Objective: To investigate the association of group training program (GTP) participation and other known risk factors with training and intrarace injury rates in female marathoners.

Design: Multivariate analysis of a self-reported questionnaire.

Setting: Nike Women's Marathon, San Francisco, CA.

Retesting for repeat chlamydial infection: family planning provider knowledge, attitudes, and practices.

Background: Repeated genital infections with Chlamydia trachomatis are common and associated with serious adverse reproductive sequelae in women such as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain. Retesting for repeat chlamydial infection is recommended 3 months after treatment for an initial infection; however, retesting rates in various settings are low. In order to design interventions to increase retesting rates, understanding provider barriers and practices around retesting is crucial.

Measuring the quality of medical care for women who experience sexual assault with data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Study Objective: We provide new descriptive epidemiology on the demography and quality of care of women who experience sexual assault. Two limited aspects of emergency department treatment received by women who have experienced sexual assault are examined: (1) administration of emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy and (2) screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Methods: A nationally representative survey on the basis of 7 years of data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) was analyzed.