How useful are our present statistics on sexually-transmitted diseases?
Various aspects of the British statistics relating to sexually-transmitted diseases are examined. Defects in these are illustrated by data from a series of surveys. It is suggested that the information being collected and published is incomplete by an unknown amount, inadequate because it tells only of laboratory diagnoses, and unusable at a local level because it relates to no identifiable population. Some suggestions are made as to how the data collected might be made more useful: the first and most important is that a working party should decide for what purposes the statistics are required.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012737:Sex Factors; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom
D010406:Penicillins