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Home‐based versus clinic‐based specimen collection in the management of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
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Title
Home‐based versus clinic‐based specimen collection in the management of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd011317.pub2
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Luisa Fajardo‐Bernal, Johanna Aponte‐Gonzalez, Patrick Vigil, Edith Angel‐Müller, Carlos Rincon, Hernando G Gaitán, Nicola Low

Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) are the most frequent causes of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Management strategies that reduce losses in the clinical pathway from infection to cure might improve STI control and reduce complications resulting from lack of, or inadequate, treatment. To assess the effectiveness and safety of home-based specimen collection as part of the management strategy for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections compared with clinic-based specimen collection in sexually-active people. We searched the Cochrane Sexually Transmitted Infections Group Specialized Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE and LILACS on 27 May 2015, together with the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry (ICTRP) and ClinicalTrials.gov. We also handsearched conference proceedings, contacted trial authors and reviewed the reference lists of retrieved studies. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of home-based compared with clinic-based specimen collection in the management of C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae infections. Three review authors independently assessed trials for inclusion, extracted data and assessed risk of bias. We contacted study authors for additional information. We resolved any disagreements through consensus. We used standard methodological procedures recommended by Cochrane. The primary outcome was index case management, defined as the number of participants tested, diagnosed and treated, if test positive. Ten trials involving 10,479 participants were included. There was inconclusive evidence of an effect on the proportion of participants with index case management (defined as individuals tested, diagnosed and treated for CT or NG, or both) in the group with home-based (45/778, 5.8%) compared with clinic-based (51/788, 6.5%) specimen collection (risk ratio (RR) 0.88, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.60 to 1.29; 3 trials, I² = 0%, 1566 participants, moderate quality). Harms of home-based specimen collection were not evaluated in any trial. All 10 trials compared the proportions of individuals tested. The results for the proportion of participants completing testing had high heterogeneity (I² = 100%) and were not pooled. We could not combine data from individual studies looking at the number of participants tested because the proportions varied widely across the studies, ranging from 30% to 96% in home group and 6% to 97% in clinic group (low-quality evidence). The number of participants with positive test was lower in the home-based specimen collection group (240/2074, 11.6%) compared with the clinic-based group (179/967, 18.5%) (RR 0.72, 95% CI 0.61 to 0.86; 9 trials, I² = 0%, 3041 participants, moderate quality). Home-based specimen collection could result in similar levels of index case management for CT or NG infection when compared with clinic-based specimen collection. Increases in the proportion of individuals tested as a result of home-based, compared with clinic-based, specimen collection are offset by a lower proportion of positive results. The harms of home-based specimen collection compared with clinic-based specimen collection have not been evaluated. Future RCTs to assess the effectiveness of home-based specimen collection should be designed to measure biological outcomes of STI case management, such as proportion of participants with negative tests for the relevant STI at follow-up.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 205 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 21%
Researcher 24 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 11%
Student > Bachelor 23 11%
Other 13 6%
Other 26 13%
Unknown 54 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 55 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 6%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 4%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 66 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 January 2023.
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#2,156,928
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#131
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