USPSTF Updates Recommendations for Syphilis Screening
Key clinical point: Screening for syphilis every 3 months in high-risk individuals is associated with greater detection of the disease.
Major finding: Of 6,789 asymptomatic men who have sex with men, 53% of those tested every 3 months received a diagnosis of early syphilis, versus 16% of those tested annually.
Data source: Review of nine full-text articles in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the Ovid MEDLINE database from January 2004 through October 2015.
Disclosures: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded the study. The authors did not report any relevant financial disclosures.
FROM JAMA
This study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, “under a contract to support the USPSTF.” The authors did not report any relevant financial disclosures.
