title: Screening for chlamydia: are you doing it?
abstract: This retrospective study evaluates the implications of offering routine chlamydia screenings to women ages 16 to 25 attending a primary care clinical setting. Results found that routine screenings significantly increased the number of women screened, enabling early identification and treatment of affected women and potentially reducing infection rates.
authors.affiliation: Dyan Den Ouden is a family nurse practitioner with the city and county of San Francisco, Calif. Anne Derouin is an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, N.C. Susan Silva is an associate research professor at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, N.C. Dr. Abdul Khan is a physician in Manteca, Calif.
authors.forename: Dyan Den
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Ouden
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Derouin
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002689:Chlamydia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000451:nursing*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D059017:Primary Care Nursing; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult