The impact of urban community hospital surveillance for gonorrhoea on the infection rate and complications in the female. A progress report.
This study substantiates a previous report concerning the importance of the urban community hospital, particularly its emergency room, in the detection of gonorrhoea in women. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a major complication of gonorrhoea in women, significantly declined during a nine-year surveillance and control programme in the Memphis-Shelby County area. This suggests that the programme may have prevented PID developing in women through the early detection and treatment of asymptomatic infections.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D013714:Tennessee; D013997:Time Factors; D014505:Urban Population