BMJ  2006;332 (7 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7532.0-c

Let practice nurses tell partners about chlamydia

For people with chlamydia infections diagnosed in primary care, a strategy of practice-based partner notification by trained nurses with telephone follow-up by health advisers may be more effective than specialist referral. In a randomised controlled trial of 140 adults with chlamydia infection, Low and colleagues (p 14) found that 47 out of 72 participants whose partners were notified by practice nurses had at least one partner treated, compared with only 39 partners out of 68 participants referred to a genitourinary clinic, where 21 participants never turned up. The cost was the same for both strategies.

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