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A K Sullivan1, H McClean, C A Carne
1National Audit Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. Ann.Sullivan@Chelwest.nhs.uk
Abstract:
A focused repeat national audit of sexual history-taking was conducted in genitourinary (GU) medicine clinics in the UK in 2010, addressing several areas of practice under-performance identified in the baseline 2008 national audit. The case-notes of 4285 patients were audited. An increase in documentation was observed for all measures, except legibility which was unchanged. Despite the overall improvement, several measures (chaperone offer, condom usage and four of five aspects of HIV risk assessment) remained below target.
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