Improving notification of sexually transmitted infections: a quality improvement project and planned experiment.

Background And Objective: Inadequate follow-up of positive sexually transmitted infection (STI) test results is a gap in health care quality that contributes to the epidemic of STIs in adolescent women. The goal of this study was to improve our ability to contact adolescent women with positive STI test results after an emergency department visit.

Methods: We conducted an interventional quality improvement project at a pediatric emergency department.