Shiying Hao

Key takeaways: Patients often received treatments that are not recommended by the CDC, particularly azithromycin. Keeping up with current recommendations is key to lowering treatment disparities, according to the researchers. Recommendations for chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care practices are often prescribed against CDC guidelines, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine.

We summarized baseline demographic characteristics for all patients and further stratified the demographic characteristics by specific STI testing during the study period. We performed Chi-Square tests to determine whether differences observed were likely due to chance. We applied the standardization to the monthly and annual rates of STI tests. Direct age adjustment was based on using the reference U.S. age distribution per the U.S. Census 2020 data for the study period.

Research ArticleOriginal Research Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study Shiying Hao, Guoyu Tao, William S. Pearson, Ilia Rochlin, Robert L. Phillips, David H. Rehkopf and Neil Kamdar Abstract PURPOSE Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the 2 most common bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Nonadherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines remains a concern.