- Abstract:
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Objective: To determine whether screening and treating women for chlamydial infection reduces the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease over the subsequent 12 months. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Common rooms, lecture theatres, and student bars at universities and further education colleges in London. Participants: 2529 sexually active female students, mean age 21 years (range 16-27). Intervention: Participants completed a questionnaire and provided self taken vaginal swab...
Expand abstract - Journal:
- BMJ (Online)
- Volume:
- 340
- Issue:
- 7752
- Pages:
- 903-903
- Publication date:
- 2010-04-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1756-1833
- ISSN:
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0959-8138
- URN:
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uuid:186508e3-388e-4747-9cc6-477be692b3ce
- Source identifiers:
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244307
- Local pid:
- pubs:244307
- Language:
- English
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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Randomised controlled trial of screening for Chlamydia trachomatis to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease: The POPI (prevention of pelvic infection) trial
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