Please Be Careful with Me: Discrepancies between Adolescent Expectations and Clinician Perspectives on the Management of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Autor: Maria Trent, Arlene Butz, Kevin D. Frick, Jonathan M. Ellen, Qiang Qian, Harold P Lehmann, Michelle Alexandra Recto
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
ISSN: 1083-3188
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2019.04.001
Popis: STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare clinician perspectives for the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) with those of adolescent patients and parents. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Urban academic pediatric and adolescent medicine practices and school-based health clinics in a large urban community with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and a national sample of adolescent-serving clinicians. PARTICIPANTS: Female patients aged 12–19, parents raising an adolescent over the age of 12 in the urban community, and clinicians who serve adolescents collected from regional and national listservs. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Visual analog scale (VAS) scores on a scale of 0 to 10 corresponding to preferences on patient disposition in 17 clinical scenarios for a hypothetical patient with PID. RESULTS: Compared to adolescents, clinicians were significantly more likely to endorse hospitalizations when patients presented with severe or complicated illness (0.9, SE 0.22, p
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