Impact of Post-visit Contact on Emergency Department Utilization for Adolescent Women with a Sexually Transmitted Infection.

Study Objectives: To understand Emergency Department (ED) utilization patterns for women who received sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and explore the impact of post-visit telephone contact on future ED visits.

Design, Setting, Participants: We performed a secondary analysis on a prospectively collected dataset of ED patients ages 14-21 years at a children's hospital.

Interventions And Main Outcome Measures: The dataset documented initial and return visits, STI results, race, age and post-visit contact success (telephone contact ≤7 days of visit).