[Routine gonorrhoeae cultures: a cost--benefit analysis on obstetric--gynaecological patients (author's transl)].
Report is made on the routine check up of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae cultures of 46.081 patients. 375 (0.81%) of these showed positive results. Of the 375 positive N. Gonorrhoeae cases 122 (33%) showed neither clinical symptoms nor anamnestic indications of Gonorrhoeae. The costs for the N. Gonorrhoeae cultures amounted to sfr. 18.407.-. Distributed on the 122 non-symptomatic and anamnestically mute cases there resulted costs of sfr. 148.-for each N. Gonorrhoeae case discovered by routine check up. The setting up a routine check up of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae cultures is therefore recommended.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003470:Culture Media; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000382:microbiology*; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011247:Pregnancy; D013557:Switzerland
D003470:Culture Media
Der kulturelle Gonokokken-Nachweis: Eine Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse an einem geburtshilflich-gynäkologischen Patientengut.