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Lab Follow-Up Processes by Care Setting:

Check for a Confidential Information Note for patient's contact information (found in ad hoc forms).

Lab will complete the following steps automatically:

  • Reporting of positive HIV through confirmation testing - notify provider and fax report to Infection Control
  • Reporting of positive Syphilis - results are included in an automated reportable diseases report which is electronically submitted to the Kansas City Health Department daily

Primary Care Clinic:

  • STI test results back within 2 - 5 days to provider
  • Provider to order treatment and forward test results to clinic nurse
  • Clinic nurse will call teen with positive test results and assist with coordinating treatment

Teen Clinic/Adolescent Specialty Clinic

  • STI test results back within 2 -5 days to provider
  • All teens provided with call back number for test results
  • Provider to order treatment and forward test results to clinic nurse
  • Clinic nurse will call teen with positive test results and assist with coordinating treatment

Urgent Care and Emergency Department

*STI testing is not routinely performed in the urgent care clinic but will follow the steps below if STI testing is completed:

  • STI test results back within 2 -5 days to provider
  • Follow-up nursing staff to call patient if test results are positive

Inpatient

  • STI test results back within 2 - 5 days and sent to attending provider
  • Provider to begin treatment for those patients with positive test results

**If there is no success with patient contact, clinic nurse will notify Infection Control @ icteam@cmh.edu

These pathways do not establish a standard of care to be followed in every case. It is recognized that each case is different, and those individuals involved in providing health care are expected to use their judgment in determining what is in the best interests of the patient based on the circumstances existing at the time. It is impossible to anticipate all possible situations that may exist and to prepare a pathway for each. Accordingly, these pathways should guide care with the understanding that departures from them may be required at times.