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Doctors Fall Short On Screening Teenage Girls.
2001 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer Young, sexually-active women are less likely to be screened for chlamydia infection if their doctors are male, if they are in private practice, or if they are in a rural area, according to a survey published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Robert L. Cook, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues surveyed over 800 primary care physicians in Pennsylvania via questionnaires to find out their practice patterns regarding chlamydia screening in sexually-active teenage girls. Those surveyed included equal numbers of obstetrician/gynecologists, pediatricians, internists, and family physicians, and 40% were women.
Only one-third of respondents said they screen asymptomatic teenage patients for chlamydia during routine ob/gyn exams.
Multivariate analysis revealed the following attitudes, practice patterns, and demographic factors that made a physician more likely to screen for the chlamydia in this population:
* Sex of doctor: 43% of females versus 24% of males
* Location of practice: 46% of urban versus 26% of non-urban
* Type of practice: 60% of clinics versus 18% of solo practices
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Source: HighBeam Research, Doctors Fall Short On Screening Teenage Girls.