An audit of contact tracing activities and records for chlamydia in an urban sexual health clinic
Natalie Edmiston A C , John Chuah A and Mary-Louise McLaws BA Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic, PO Box 44, Miami, QLD 4220, Australia.
B School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: natalie_edmiston@health.qld.gov.au
Sexual Health 3(2) 127-128 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH06007
Submitted: 27 January 2006 Accepted: 28 February 2006 Published: 26 May 2006
Abstract
The National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy 2005–2008 emphasised the importance of control of chlamydia and recognised contact tracing as an important health tool for this. This paper reports on a recent audit of contact tracing conducted at the Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge Wendy Fankauser, Leonie Fisher, Margaret Leamon and Maria Page who assisted with data management and Brenda Henry and Stuart Aitken who provided support for the research.
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