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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Phone call more cost-effective than counseling for prompting follow-up clinic visits

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 6th, 2005

Phone reminders are more cost-effective than counseling for improving the likelihood of a patient follow-up clinic visit.

According to recent research published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, "Persons who have been infected with chlamydia or gonorrhea (CT/GC) are at elevated risk for re-infection. The cost-effectiveness of interventions designed to encourage public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients to return for rescreening has not been well-evaluated. The goal of this study was to conduct a program- and societal-perspective cost-effectiveness analysis of five interventions designed to encourage public STD clinic patients infected...

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