Responding To Your Patient’s Questions
Responding To Your Patient’s Questions
Tips to prepare all members of a care team to answer common patient questions regarding sexual health including sexually transmitted infections.
Service: Quality Improvement
Why Screen for Chlamydia? A How-To Implementation Guide for Healthcare Providers
Why Screen for Chlamydia? A How-To Implementation Guide for Healthcare Providers
Provides information on how to incorporate chlamydia screening, testing, and treatment in a clinical care setting. Includes topics such as taking a sexual history, making screening a routine practice, improving screening and treatment delivery, and providing confidential care to adolescents.
Understanding Confidentiality And Minor Consent In California: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Understanding Confidentiality And Minor Consent In California: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Provides information on the steps an office can take to protect minor consent and confidentiality.
Includes:
- Charts on minor consent and confidentiality
- Practice tools
- Screening, assessment, and referral tools
- Resource sheets
- Health education handouts for teens and their parents/guardians
- Online resources and research
Adolescent Health Care 101: The Basics – CA Edition: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Adolescent Health Care 101: The Basics – CA Edition: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Provides information on adolescent health assessment tools and insight on how to create an adolescent-friendly environment.
Includes:
- Screening tools
- Brief office interventions and counseling guidelines
- Resources and referrals
- Information and tip sheets
- Health education materials for teens and their adult caregivers
- Literature and internet resources
- A Youth Health Rights and Responsibilities poster
- A counseling tips bookmark
A Teen-Friendly Reproductive Health Visit Infographic
A Teen-Friendly Reproductive Health Visit Infographic
This infographic models a positive reproductive visit in a teen-friendly clinic. Use it to assess your clinic’s opportunities to become more teen-friendly.
Standard of Care for Patients with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)
Standard of Care for Patients with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)
Use this document to educate providers and clinic administration about the need to implement patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) within the expedited partner therapy (EPT) framework to treat the partners of those who have tested positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea.
Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adolescents
Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adolescents
Provides information on how to assess an adolescent patient’s sexual risk and provides a framework determine the types of services and STI screenings needed.
Talk With Your Kids Timeline and Tips
Talk With Your Kids Timeline and Tips
Provide this timeline to parents or guardians who would like suggestions for age-appropriate sexual health topics to discuss with their kids from ages 0 through 18 years. Additional information about each topic, including tips for starting conversations, is available on the partner website, www.talkwithyourkids.org.
CDC Information for Teens – STI Fact Sheet
CDC Information for Teens – STI Fact Sheet
A fact sheet for teens with more information about STIs and STI prevention.
CDC Just Diagnosed? – STI Fact Sheet
CDC Just Diagnosed? – STI Fact Sheet
Information for patients who are unsure what to do after testing positive for gonorrhea or chlamydia. Includes testing, partner notification, and retesting.