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| Thomas L GiftSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Emergency department sexually transmitted disease and human immunodeficiency virus screening: findings from a national surveyThomas L Gift
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:993-6. 2006....
The cost-effectiveness of screening men for Chlamydia trachomatis: a review of the literatureThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:S51-60. 2008..A review of the literature on the cost-effectiveness of screening men for chlamydia could potentially provide guidance...- Assessing the impact of state insurance policies on chlamydia screening: A panel data analysisKwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Health Policy 96:231-8. 2010..We assessed the impact of the laws on chlamydia screening rates for Georgia (GA) and Tennessee (TN)... - The direct medical cost of epididymitis and orchitis: evidence from a study of insurance claimsThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:S84-8. 2006..Epididymitis and orchitis (EO) are the primary sequelae of acute chlamydia and gonorrhea in men. Existing estimates of the cost per episode of epididymitis are over 10 years old or are based on limited data... - A cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to increase repeat testing in patients treated for gonorrhea or chlamydia at public sexually transmitted disease clinicsThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:542-9. 2005..The cost-effectiveness of interventions designed to encourage public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients to return for rescreening has not been well-evaluated... - The cost and cost-effectiveness of expedited partner therapy compared with standard partner referral for the treatment of chlamydia or gonorrheaThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:1067-73. 2011..All of these trials found that EPT significantly increased partner treatment over SR, whereas some found that EPT significantly lowered reinfection rates in index patients... - The program cost and cost-effectiveness of screening men for Chlamydia to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease in womenThomas L Gift
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:S66-75. 2008..Because men transmit Chlamydia trachomatis to women, screening men to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease in women may be a viable strategy. However, the cost-effectiveness of this approach requires careful assessment... 
Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USAThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1315-7. 2010..Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children...- A cost-effectiveness evaluation of a jail-based chlamydia screening program for men and its impact on their partners in the communityThomas L Gift
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:S103-10. 2006..Few cost-effectiveness evaluations of screening men in jails for chlamydia have been published, and none have evaluated the cost-effectiveness of providing partner notification services to the partners of chlamydia-infected inmates... - Treatment cost of acute gonococcal infections: estimates from employer-sponsored private insurance claims data in the United States, 2003-2007Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:316-8. 2010..The estimated average total cost per episode for those who were treated was $210 (male, $227; female, $205). This estimate does not include intangible (e.g., pain) and indirect costs (e.g., lost productivity)... - Productivity losses attributable to untreated chlamydial infection and associated pelvic inflammatory disease in reproductive-aged womenJohn M Blandford
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:S117-21. 2006.... - Estimates of the direct cost per case and overall burden of trichomoniasis for the employer-sponsored privately insured women population in the United States, 2001 to 2005Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road MS E 80, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA kowusuedusei cdc gov
Sex Transm Dis 36:395-9. 2009..Little is known about the direct medical cost and overall burden of trichomoniasis among women in the United States... - The economic value of reductions in gonorrhea and syphilis incidence in the United States, 1990-2003Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Mailstop E 80, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Prev Med 43:411-5. 2006..The objective of this study was to estimate the reduction in direct medical costs associated with reductions in gonorrhea and syphilis incidence in the United States from 1990 to 2003... - Cost-effectiveness of a dual non-treponemal/treponemal syphilis point-of-care test to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes in sub-Saharan AfricaKwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:997-1003. 2011..In this study, we compare the health and economic outcomes of the new test with existing syphilis tests/testing algorithms in a high prevalence setting... - Cost-effectiveness of on-site antenatal screening to prevent congenital syphilis in rural eastern Cape Province, Republic of South AfricaJohn M Blandford
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:S61-6. 2007..On-site screening and same-day treatment of maternal syphilis in underresourced settings can avert greater numbers of congenital syphilis cases, but health outcomes and associated costs must be evaluated jointly... - Optimal resource allocation for curing Chlamydia trachomatis infection among asymptomatic women at clinics operating on a fixed budgetGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 29:703-9. 2002..The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for screening coverage, test selection, and treatment for infection in asymptomatic women for a given family-planning-program budget... - The direct cost of chlamydial infections: estimates for the employer-sponsored privately insured population in the United States, 2003-2007Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:519-21. 2010..Estimated total cost per episode for those who were treated was $142 (male, $157; female, $141). This estimate does not include intangible cost, lost productivity, and the cost of potential sequelae... - The estimated direct medical cost of selected sexually transmitted infections in the United States, 2008Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 40:197-201. 2013..Previous estimates of the total direct cost of STIs are quite dated. We present updated direct medical cost estimates of STIs in the United States... - Applying a mixed-integer program to model re-screening women who test positive for C. trachomatis infectionGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS E80, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 7:135-44. 2004.... - The estimated direct medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases among American youth, 2000Harrell W Chesson
Health Services Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:11-9. 2004..Each year, millions of U.S. youth acquire sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Estimates of the economic burden of STDs can help to quantify the impact of STDs on the nation's youth and on the payers of the cost of their medical care... - A brief review of the estimated economic burden of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States: inflation-adjusted updates of previously published cost studiesHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:889-91. 2011..The annual direct medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases (including human immunodeficiency virus) has been estimated to be $16.9 billion (range: $13.9-$23.0 billion) in 2010 US dollars... - The cost-effectiveness of single-dose azithromycin for treatment of incubating syphilisJohn M Blandford
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:502-8. 2003..The availability of a single-dose oral therapy could increase the number of partners treated and reduce future infections... - Viral shedding duration of pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus during an elementary school outbreak--Pennsylvania, May-June 2009Achuyt Bhattarai
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:S102-8. 2011..Highest and lowest virus titers detected, 2 and 5 days following fever onset, were 3.2 and 1.2 log(10) TCID(50)/mL respectively. Overall, shedding duration in children and adults were similar to seasonal influenza viruses... - The role of bathhouses and sex clubs in HIV transmission: findings from a mathematic modelDaniel M Faissol
H Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 0205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 44:386-94. 2007..If, conversely, bathhouse closure leads to a reduction of the sexual activity that was in the bathhouse by at least 2%, HIV transmission would be lowered... - A refined estimate of the lifetime cost of pelvic inflammatory diseaseDavid B Rein
RTI International, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:325. 2004 - Does discussing sexually transmissible infections or HIV with a parent increase condom use among young women using other contraceptive methods?Heather Bradley
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Health 10:82-90. 2013..However, no previous study has examined whether discussing sexual risks with a parent is differently associated with condom use among women using and not using other contraceptive methods... - Implementing an HIV and sexually transmitted disease screening program in an emergency departmentAbigail Silva
Sinai Urban Health Institute, Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:564-72. 2007..We assess the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost of routinely recommended HIV/sexually transmitted disease screening in an urban emergency department (ED)... - Patient-delivered partner treatment for Trichomonas vaginalis infection: a randomized controlled trialPatricia Kissinger
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70012, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:445-50. 2006..Infections with Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) are common and recurrence rates are high. Better methods of treating partners of women with trichomoniasis are needed... - Factors that influence the cost effectiveness of gonorrhea screening in emergency departmentsThomas L Gift
Sex Transm Dis 32:437-8. 2005 - Cost-effectiveness of universal screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in US jailsJulie R Kraut-Becher
Center for Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Fourth Floor, Suite 4000, Philadelphia, PA 19104 3309, USA
J Urban Health 81:453-71. 2004..Jails with a high prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea represent an operationally feasible and cost-effective setting to universally test and treat women at high risk for STDs and with limited access to care elsewhere... - Screening tests to detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections--2002Robert E Johnson
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 51:1-38; quiz CE1-4. 2002.... - Health utility measures for pelvic inflammatory diseaseThomas L Gift
Sex Transm Dis 35:312-3. 2008 - Decreases in AIDS mortality and increases in primary and secondary syphilis in men who have sex with men in the United StatesHarrell W Chesson
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:263-4. 2008 - Peer referral for HIV case-finding among men who have sex with menMatthew R Golden
Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS and STD, Public Health Seattle and King County, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AIDS 20:1961-8. 2006..To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a health department-based peer referral program for identifying previously undiagnosed cases of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM)... - A community-based intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents: the Gonorrhea Community Action ProjectNancy L Vandevanter
Center for Applied Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 95:331-7. 2005..We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents...