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Confidentiality and Adolescents' Willingness to Consent to Sexually Transmitted Disease Testing
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1072-1073.
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Asymptomatic Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections
are common among sexually active adolescents.1
Routine universal screening is recommended as a strategy to reduce infection
rates, associated morbidity, and health care costs.2, 3
Confidential CT testing should be available to most adolescent patients who
request privacy based on current legal, ethical, and professional guidelines.4 In actual practice, physicians' abilities to guarantee
confidential CT testing are often limited because of billing and reimbursement
issues.
As part of a larger study,5 we examined
adolescents' willingness to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
under varying confidentiality conditions. Patients evaluated in 2 general
pediatric practices in North Carolina for any reason who were aged 15 to 24
years, could read and understand the consent form, had not previously participated,
and denied systemic antibiotic use in the past 30 days were invited to participate
in the larger study. Written consent was obtained. Participants completed
an anonymous written survey . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Eisenberg et al.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005;159:120-125.
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