Charter Medical

Friday, January 21, 2011

Outpatient Department Underused in PID treatment in Teens


Teen girls who are hospitalized with pelvic inflammatory disease have to shell out more dollars as compared to treatment in emergency room, and even emergency treatment is more expensive than treating them in outpatient clinic. The study was recently published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, where it was conducted on 172 patients, among which 152 were girls aged 12 to 21.  

Based on the research, it was concluded that teens need early diagnosis and treatment which would help them have control on cost and also prevent the dangerous Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).

The cost of PID health clinic is important and more importantly PID care should be improved to assess each girl based on their age. The PID cost could scale up to 6 times the cost of treatment in emergency room, and 12 times the cost of treatment in outpatient Department.

The outpatient visits consisted of 135 patients, out of which only 14 patients were regular, and the rest 121 were for the emergency room, which signifies lack of primary health care for the teens. Outpatient visit could cost about $701 compared to $1,382 for emergency department.

PID is inflammation of the reproductive organs, caused due to sexually transmitted infections (STD) like gonorrhea and Chlamydia. The STD diseases are causing concern in the United States and need to be reduced before it leads to other diseases and ailments. 

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