Analysis of Expedited Partner Therapy Provision
OTHER BACTERIAL INFECTION
An electronic health report (EHR) prompt (EPIC Systems Corporation, Verona, WI) was created to automatically send same-day, daily emails to the research team about ED visits that met the previously described criteria for the interruptive pop-up alert BPA. Each of these ED visits’ EHR Assessment and Plan section were reviewed by a research assistant to confirm that the patient was being treated for a presumed STI rather than for another bacterial infection. For ED visits that met these study criteria, research assistants extracted the following data elements: patient demographics (age, gender, race/ethnicity, insurance payer, STI testing results); clinician demographics (resident, attending or PA); and whether the clinician had been exposed to the interruptive BPA for EPT. Summary statistics are reported with the frequency of each category by EPT ordering. We conducted univariable analysis with the Fisher exact test comparing distributions by receipt of EPT. Proportions are calculated with a logit transformed 95% confidence interval (CI). We performed statistical analyses using Stata version 16 (StataCorp LLC, College Station, TX).