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How long should clinicians spend sampling the pharynx for gonorrhoea culture specimens?
- Source :
- Sexual Health. 19:74-75
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- CSIRO Publishing, 2021.
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Abstract
- There are few data on the length of time clinicians should take sampling the pharynx to optimise the sensitivity of gonorrhoea culture specimens and we aimed to gain a consensus on sampling time. The estimated mean time clinicians reported that they spent sampling the pharynx for gonorrhoea culture specimens was 4.63 s (s.d. ± 2.04). There was no significant difference in sampling times between clinicians who had worked in sexual health for over and under 10 years, (4.7 (s.d. ±2.02) vs 4.6 (s.d. ± 2.3); P = 0.45). We are now using these findings to design an educational tool with the aim of improving pharyngeal gonorrhoea culture sensitivity.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14498987 and 14485028
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sexual Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b2c6b802f0a3f5a232a52a78c76f612
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sh21203