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| Guoyu TaoSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Missed opportunities to assess sexually transmitted diseases in U.S. adults during routine medical checkupsG Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Prev Med 18:109-14. 2000..To examine missed opportunities for STD-related counseling, diagnosis and treatment, we investigated how frequently U.S. adults reported being asked about STDs by their health care providers during routine checkups...- Racial and ethnic disparities in prenatal syphilis screening among women with Medicaid-covered deliveries in FloridaChristina I Fowler
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:378-93. 2008..We examined racial/ethnic group differences in prenatal syphilis screening among pregnant women with equal financial access to prenatal care through Medicaid... 
Self-reported Chlamydia testing rates of sexually active women aged 15-25 years in the United States, 2006-2008Guoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:605-7. 2012..9% annual chlamydia testing rate for sexually active US women aged 15 to 25 years, defined as having ≥ 1 sex partner in the past year. Our results highlight the need for increased testing among sexually active young women...- Chlamydia testing patterns for commercially insured women, 2008Guoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 42:337-41. 2012..However, several studies have shown that many providers screen all women of reproductive age in public settings... - Estimating prenatal syphilis and HIV screening rates for commercially insured womenGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:175-81. 2005.... - Gonorrhea prevention and clinical care in the private sector: lessons learned and priorities for quality improvementGuoyu Tao
Health Services Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:652-62. 2006.... - Estimating Chlamydia screening rates by using reported sexually transmitted disease tests for sexually active women aged 16 to 25 years in the United StatesGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:180-2. 2007..The objective of this study was to estimate Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) screening rates by using reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) tests for sexually active women aged 16 to 25 years in the U.S. general population... - HIV testing of commercially insured patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseasesGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:43-6. 2008 - Receipt of HIV and STD testing services during routine general medical or gynecological examinations: variations by patient sexual risk behaviorsGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:167-71. 2008..The objective of this study was to estimate HIV and STD diagnostic and testing practices during routine general medical examinations (RGME) or gynecological examinations (GYNE) of patients by their reported HRSB status... 
Sexual orientation and related viral sexually transmitted disease rates among US women aged 15 to 44 yearsGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E80, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1007-9. 2008..0% to 17.2%) than among lesbians (2.3% to 6.7%). These findings support the need for STD prevention interventions that consider lesbians and bisexual women separately...- 2009 cervical cytology guidelines and chlamydia testing among sexually active young womenGuoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:1319-23. 2010..The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect that decreased frequency of cervical cancer screening would have on chlamydia screening, which is recommended annually for sexually active women aged 25 years or younger... - 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.... - Incompleteness of reporting of laboratory-confirmed chlamydial infection by providers affiliated with a managed care organization, 1997-1999Guoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:139-42. 2004..Surveillance for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) depends on the receipt of positive STD test results from laboratories or reports of STD diagnoses from clinicians to local or state health departments... - 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... - Understanding sexual activity defined in the HEDIS measure of screening young women for Chlamydia trachomatisGuoyu Tao
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:435-40. 2002.... - Services provided to nonpregnant women during general medical and gynecologic examinations in the United StatesG Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Prev Med 21:291-7. 2001.... - Utilization of health services in physician offices and outpatient clinics by adolescents and young women in the United States: implications for improving access to reproductive health servicesKaren W Hoover
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Adolesc Health 46:324-30. 2010..We examined utilization patterns of adolescents and young women as they seek general and reproductive health services in physician offices and hospital outpatient clinics... - Higher yet suboptimal chlamydia testing rates at community health centers and outpatient clinics compared with physician officesJeffrey M Eugene
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Public Health 102:e26-9. 2012.... - Low rates of hepatitis screening and vaccination of HIV-infected MSM in HIV clinicsKaren W Hoover
Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:349-53. 2012..Our objective was to estimate adherence to HIV management guidelines that recommend screening HIV-infected persons for hepatitis A, B, and C infection, and vaccinating for hepatitis A and B if susceptible... - Estimating the direct outpatient medical cost per episode of primary and secondary syphilis in the United States: insured population perspective, 2003-2007Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:175-9. 2011..No study has directly estimated the direct outpatient medical cost of care for primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis among the employer-sponsored commercially insured population in the United States... - Do physicians provide counseling with HIV and STD testing at physician offices or hospital outpatient departments?Guoyu Tao
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
AIDS 17:1243-7. 2003.... - Heterosexual anal sex activity in the year after an STD clinic visitLin H Tian
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:905-9. 2008..To describe heterosexual anal sex activity during a year and to identify factors associated with heterosexual anal sex and condom use during anal sex... - STD screening of HIV-infected MSM in HIV clinicsKaren W Hoover
Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:771-6. 2010..Our objective was to determine whether providers who care for HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) followed these guidelines... - Chlamydia screening of young sexually active, Medicaid-insured women by race and ethnicity, 2002-2005Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:642-6. 2009..To estimate chlamydia screening rates of young sexually active Medicaid-insured women by race and ethnicity and age from 2002 to 2005... - Pelvic inflammatory disease among privately insured women, United States, 2001-2005Michele K Bohm
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:131-6. 2010..National survey data are currently used to estimate PID rates in the United States, but a declining number of cases threaten their future usefulness... - Sexually transmitted disease care in managed care organizationsZsakeba Henderson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E 80, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 19:491-511. 2005..Applied researchers and quality improvement specialists must work with clinicians, patients, and health systems to develop and scale-up interventions to improve STD prevention and control... - Low rates of both asymptomatic chlamydia screening and diagnostic testing of women in US outpatient clinicsKaren Hoover
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol 112:891-8. 2008.... - The estimated direct medical cost of selected sexually transmitted infections in the United States, 2008Kwame Owusu-Edusei
From the Divisions of STD Prevention, Viral Hepatitis, and HIV AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
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... - Predictive value of clinical diagnostic codes for the CDC case definition of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID): implications for surveillanceSylvie Ratelle
Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02130, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:866-70. 2003..Reporting burden can be alleviated with the use of administrative data... - 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... - 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... - Trends in the diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancy in the United StatesKaren W Hoover
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol 115:495-502. 2010..To estimate trends in the rates of diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancy in the United States... - Explaining racial differences in prenatal care initiation and syphilis screening among Medicaid-covered pregnant womenE Kathleen Adams
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:177-93. 2009..Having an outpatient department as usual source of care was a key factor. This may reflect unmeasured characteristics of minorities and their neighborhoods or differences in screening practices across provider settings... - Chlamydia screening in a Health Plan before and after a national performance measure introductionGale R Burstein
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol 106:327-34. 2005.... - 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... - Missed opportunities for chlamydia screening of young women in the United StatesKaren Hoover
Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Obstet Gynecol 111:1097-102. 2008..To identify missed opportunities for chlamydia screening in ambulatory care offices... - Use of cervical cancer screening among insured women: the extent of missed opportunitiesSajal K Chattopadhyay
Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Health Policy 73:194-201. 2005..Concerted efforts by insurance and health-care providers are needed to improve adherence to the recommended cervical cancer screening guidelines, both by consumers and service providers... - Differences in access to health care services among adults in rural America by rural classification categories and agePing Zhang
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Aust J Rural Health 11:64-72. 2003..To study differences in excess to health care services between different population groups in rural areas of the United States... - Suboptimal adherence to repeat testing recommendations for men and women with positive Chlamydia tests in the United States, 2008-2010Karen W Hoover
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 56:51-7. 2013..Retesting of all men and women with a positive test is recommended 3 months after treatment. A test-of-cure is recommended for pregnant women 3-4 weeks after treatment... - Provision of sexual health services to adolescent enrollees in Medicaid managed careWilliam E Lafferty
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1779-83. 2002..This Seattle project measured sexual health services provided to 1112 Medicaid managed care enrollees aged 14 to 18 years... - Patterns in prenatal syphilis screening among Florida Medicaid enrolleesEllen K Wilson
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:378-83. 2007.... - Evaluating the quality of sexual health care provided to adolescents in medicaid managed care: a comparison of two data sourcesLois Downey
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:2-11. 2004..However, encounter data, used as an adjunct to medical record review, may increase the reliability of quality evaluations... - Prenatal syphilis screening rates measured using medicaid claims and electronic medical recordsMarc B Rosenman
Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:387-92. 2008..We measured prenatal syphilis screening rates in Indiana women with prenatal Medicaid coverage and also used electronic medical records to examine the completeness of syphilis screening claims in Medicaid administrative data...