ArticlePoint of care2010
What's the Point? How Point-of-Care STI Tests Can Impact Infected Patients.
Article in Point of care, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Improving Access to Care Through Youth-Focused Virtual Sexual Health Navigation.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of an immunochromatographic test forPractical laboratory medicine · 2024Article
- Retrospective Study for the Clinical Evaluation of a Real-Time PCR Assay with Lyophilized and Ready-to-Use Reagents forDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Advanced "lab-on-a-chip" to detect viruses - Current challenges and future perspectives.Biosensors & bioelectronics · 2020Review
- Point-by-Point Progress: Gonorrhea Point of Care Tests.Expert review of molecular diagnostics · 2020Article
- An electrochemical scaffold sensor for rapid syphilis diagnosis.The Analyst · 2019Article
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- A paperfluidic platform to detect Neisseria gonorrhoeae in clinical samples.Biomedical microdevices · 2018Article
- A 30-Min Nucleic Acid Amplification Point-of-Care Test for Genital Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Women: A Prospective, Multi-center Study of Diagnostic Accuracy.EBioMedicine · 2018Article
- An evaluation of the SD Bioline HIV/syphilis duo test.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2018Article
- Rapid and point-of-care tests for the diagnosis ofSexually transmitted infections · 2017Review
- Rapid detection and strain typing of Chlamydia trachomatis using a highly multiplexed microfluidic PCR assay.PloS one · 2017Article
- Leucocyte esterase dip-stick test as a point-of-care diagnostic for urogenital chlamydia in male patients: A multi-center evaluation in two STI outpatient clinics in Paramaribo and Amsterdam.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Clinical evaluation of the OneStep Gonorrhea RapiCard InstaTest for detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in symptomatic patients from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2015Article
- Point of care diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections: perspectives and advances.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2014Review
- Blind evaluation of the microwave-accelerated metal-enhanced fluorescence ultrarapid and sensitive Chlamydia trachomatis test by use of clinical samples.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Point-of-care (POC) tests are an important strategy to address the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among both adolescents and young adults. While access to care and confidentiality are major barriers to STI care, POC tests allow the clinician to provide immediate and confidential test results and treatment. In addition, POC test results constitute a "teachable moment"; that is, an opportunity to provide immediate feedback to the patient that may impact his/her risk behaviors. This paper reviews published data and manufacturer's product literature describing current point-of-care STI tests, including studies of test performance as well as impact on treatment intervals and disease spread. It presents theoretical and proposed pitfalls and solutions of implementing POC tests in clinical settings, non-traditional settings, and home care venues. We reviewed the available STI tests according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for judging POC tests: the "ASSURRED" criteria (Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and Robust, Equipment-free, Delivered).
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