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Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019
Partner notification (PN) is an essential element of sexually transmitted infection (STI) control. It enables identification, treatment and advice for sexual contacts who may benefit from additional preventive interventions such as HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. PN is most effective in redu...
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35057899 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.3.2001895 |
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author | Wayal, Sonali Estcourt, Claudia S Mercer, Catherine H Saunders, John Low, Nicola McKinnon, Tamsin Symonds, Merle Cassell, Jackie A |
author_facet | Wayal, Sonali Estcourt, Claudia S Mercer, Catherine H Saunders, John Low, Nicola McKinnon, Tamsin Symonds, Merle Cassell, Jackie A |
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description | Partner notification (PN) is an essential element of sexually transmitted infection (STI) control. It enables identification, treatment and advice for sexual contacts who may benefit from additional preventive interventions such as HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. PN is most effective in reducing STI transmission when it reaches individuals who are most likely to have an STI and to engage in sexual behaviour that facilitates STI transmission, including having multiple and/or new sex partners. Outcomes of PN practice need to be measurable in order to inform standards. They need to address all five stages in the cascade of care: elicitation of partners, establishing contactable partners, notification, testing and treatment. In the United Kingdom, established outcome measures cover only the first three stages and do not take into account the type of sexual partnership. We report an evidence-based process to develop new PN outcomes and inform standards of care. We undertook a systematic literature review, evaluation of published information on types of sexual partnership and a modified Delphi process to reach consensus. We propose six new PN outcome measures at five stages of the cascade, including stratification by sex partnership type. Our framework for PN outcome measurement has potential to contribute in other domains, including Covid-19 contact tracing. |
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spelling | pubmed-88046652022-02-24 Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 Wayal, Sonali Estcourt, Claudia S Mercer, Catherine H Saunders, John Low, Nicola McKinnon, Tamsin Symonds, Merle Cassell, Jackie A Euro Surveill Perspective Partner notification (PN) is an essential element of sexually transmitted infection (STI) control. It enables identification, treatment and advice for sexual contacts who may benefit from additional preventive interventions such as HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. PN is most effective in reducing STI transmission when it reaches individuals who are most likely to have an STI and to engage in sexual behaviour that facilitates STI transmission, including having multiple and/or new sex partners. Outcomes of PN practice need to be measurable in order to inform standards. They need to address all five stages in the cascade of care: elicitation of partners, establishing contactable partners, notification, testing and treatment. In the United Kingdom, established outcome measures cover only the first three stages and do not take into account the type of sexual partnership. We report an evidence-based process to develop new PN outcomes and inform standards of care. We undertook a systematic literature review, evaluation of published information on types of sexual partnership and a modified Delphi process to reach consensus. We propose six new PN outcome measures at five stages of the cascade, including stratification by sex partnership type. Our framework for PN outcome measurement has potential to contribute in other domains, including Covid-19 contact tracing. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8804665/ /pubmed/35057899 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.3.2001895 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Wayal, Sonali Estcourt, Claudia S Mercer, Catherine H Saunders, John Low, Nicola McKinnon, Tamsin Symonds, Merle Cassell, Jackie A Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title | Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title_full | Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title_fullStr | Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title_full_unstemmed | Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title_short | Optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, United Kingdom, 2019 |
title_sort | optimising partner notification outcomes for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a deliberative process and consensus, united kingdom, 2019 |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35057899 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.3.2001895 |
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