Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases

Sexually transmitted infections: screening, diagnosis

 

Australia

• Australasian Sexual Health Alliance
  • Standard asymptomatic check-up

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Wide variation in sexually transmitted infection testing and counselling at Aboriginal primary health care centres in Australia: analysis of longitudinal continuous quality improvement data [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Point-of-Care Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea: Implications for Clinical Practice [2014]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Comprehensive testing for, and diagnosis of, sexually transmissible infections among Australian gay and bisexual men: findings from repeated, cross-sectional behavioural surveillance, 2003–2012 [2013]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Multiplex Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Diagnostic Accuracy, Clinical Utility, and Cost-Effectiveness [2017]
  • Self-Collected versus Clinician Collected Samples for Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in Women: A Review of Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2016]

• Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories
  • Guideline on the Investigation of Genital Tract Infections [2015]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections [2018]

Eastern Europe

• Acta Dermato-Venereologica
  • Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of mycoplasma genitalium infections in East European countries [2010]

Europe

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • STI laboratory diagnostics in Europe [2013]

International

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Advancing prevention of sexually transmitted infections through point-of-care testing: target product profiles and landscape analysis [2017]
  • Advancing point of care diagnostics for the control and prevention of STIs: the way forward [2017]

Netherlands

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Frequency and determinants of consistent STI/HIV testing among men who have sex with men testing at STI outpatient clinics in the Netherlands: a longitudinal study [2017]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • Recommendations for Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Men who have Sex with Men [2014]
  • Sexually transmitted infections: UK national screening and testing guidelines [2006]

• Public Health England
  • Use of dual nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) for chlamydia and gonorrhoea

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia: Systematic Review to Update the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations [2014]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Screening for Nonviral Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults [2014]

• American Family Physician
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections: Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2016]

• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Impact of Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines on Screening for Chlamydia [2015]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Recommendations for the Laboratory-Based Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae — 2014 [2014]

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Medical and Legal Implications of Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Children [2010]

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Men in Maricopa County Jails for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea to Avert Infections in Women [2013]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening [2014]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus [2013]
  • Manual for the standardization of colposcopy for the evaluation of vaginal products. Update 2004 [2004]
  • Point-Of-Care Diagnostic Tests (POCTs) for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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