An increase in sexually transmitted infections seen in US emergency departments

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• Alternative Title:
  Prev Med
• Personal Author:
  Pearson, William S. ; Peterman, Thomas A. ; Gift, Thomas L.
• Description:
  Surveillance data show that there is an increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and we believe that because of this increased incidence, coupled with a deteriorating public health infrastructure, these STIs are being seen more often in emergency departments. Therefore, we used six years of the most recently available nationally-representative emergency department data to show an increase in the number of emergency department visits where a sexually transmitted infection was treated. We further described the population for these visits.
• Subjects:
  Adult Emergency Service, Hospital Humans Incidence Public Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases United States
• Keywords:
  Emergency Department Health Services Public Health Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Source:
  Prev Med. 100:143-144
• Pubmed ID:
  28455221
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11289661
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  100
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ddd07026a119fd29a97526b14a79a7774e47d195fa5808460b5a62e38529e3e0a91caab0278adef18823af31ca897810212e25718cec037ed8efb0fbbcff202
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/159503/cdc_159503_DS1.pdf
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