Leveraging a Patient Portal System to Increase Adherence to Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Retesting Within a Community-Based Health Center: A Pilot Project.
Background: With exponentially rising chlamydia and gonorrhea infection rates, healthcare providers are challenged with formulating strategies to ensure prompt testing, diagnosis, treatment, and retesting of individuals diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Objective: The objective...
| Published in: | Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 37 - 48 |
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Philippine Nurses Association of America
Jan2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=163780479&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 163780479 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 23294760 G9CH jtl: Journal of Nursing Practice Applications & Reviews of Research issn: 23294760 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2023 vid: 13 iid: 1 pid: 87540 pub: Philippine Nurses Association of America place: Columbus, New Jersey artinfo: ui: 163780479 163780479 163780479 10.13178/jnparr.2023.13.01.1307 163780479 ppf: 37 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Leveraging a Patient Portal System to Increase Adherence to Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Retesting Within a Community-Based Health Center: A Pilot Project. aug: au: Huynh, Theresa Zha, Peijia Kwong, Jeffrey DeStefano, Corey affil: Registered Nurse, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ sug: subj: Community Health Centers Patient Portals Utilization Chlamydia Infections Prevention and Control Gonorrhea Prevention and Control Rescreening Sexual Health Quality Improvement Pamphlets Utilization Health Promotion Human Pilot Studies Male Female Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Cost Savings Guideline Adherence Professional-Patient Relations Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Background: With exponentially rising chlamydia and gonorrhea infection rates, healthcare providers are challenged with formulating strategies to ensure prompt testing, diagnosis, treatment, and retesting of individuals diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Objective: The objective of this project was to leverage the patient portal system to improve the sexual health outcomes of persons diagnosed with a STI at a community-based health center by promoting 3-month STI resting via retesting reminders. Methods: This was a two-phased, quality improvement, pilot project that began with distribution of pamphlets serving as visual guides for patient portal registration. The second phase consisted of delivering portal retesting reminders to English-speaking patients over the age of 18 who had technological access to the organization's patient portal and were diagnosed and treated for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea within a 3-month timeframe. Results: A total of 200 pamphlets were disseminated and 25 reminder messages were delivered to 19 participants. An increase of 0.02% was observed in the center's overall patient portal registration rate. Additionally, an improvement in STI retesting rate from 31.58% to 52.63% was noted, signifying a 21.05% increase following delivery of retesting reminders. However, only 3 of the 19 project participants attended retesting appointments as a result of the reminder messages, indicating the project intervention was responsible for 15.79% of the retesting increase. Conclusions: Utilization of patient portal reminders are a cost-effective method of increasing patient engagement, promoting retesting guidelines, and facilitating a collaborative relationship between patients and providers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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