USPSTF Recommends Screening for Chlamydial Infection in Women at Risk

Young sexually active or pregnant women should be screened, but older women without risk factors should not; the evidence is insufficient to assess screening for men.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has been releasing new and updated guidelines periodically. Along with the release of this recommendation statement, the USPSTF has revised the way it grades its recommendations to make them more clinically useful.

Recommendations concern preventive care for patients without recognized signs or symptoms of a given condition. The USPSTF now grades the recommendations as follows (descriptions of levels of certainty can be found at the guidelines home page):

A — The service is recommended. High certainty that benefit is substantial.

B — The service is recommended. High certainty that benefit is moderate, or moderate certainty that benefit is moderate to substantial.

C — The USPSTF recommends against…

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Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM

USPSTF Recommends Screening for Chlamydial Infection in Women at Risk

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