Rationale and design of REACT: A randomised controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of home-collection to increase chlamydia retesting and detect repeat positive tests

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Kirsty S ^a   Hocking, Jane S ^b   Chen, Marcus ^b,c   Fairley, Christopher K ^b,c   McNulty, Anna ^d,e   Read, Phillip ^a,d   Bradshaw, Catriona S ^b,c   Tabrizi, Sepehr N ^g,h,i,j   Wand, Handan ^a   Saville, Marion ^f   Rawlinson, William ^k   Garland, Suzanne M ^g,h,i,j   Donovan, Basil ^a,d   Kaldor, John M ^a   Guy, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d Sydney Sexual Health Centre   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f VCS Inc   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^k PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Chlamydia; Home collection; Positivity; Reinfection; Retesting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA RETESTING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HOME COLLECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFECTION; SEROTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEXT MESSAGING; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINALYSIS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEW ZEALAND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899656564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-223     Document Type: Article

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