Proposed criteria for the selection of patients for ambulatory therapy of acute gonococcal salpingitis.
No firm criteria have existed that delineate which patients with acute gonococcal salpingitis can be managed successfully on an outpatient basis and which patients would be best handled by hospitalization.  This article describes one individual's rationale for selecting candidates for ambulatory therapy of acute salpingitis.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000187:drug effects; D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D016964:Gram-Negative Anaerobic Cocci; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012488:Salpingitis / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*