Lab Follow-Up Processes by Care Setting:

Check for a Confidential Information Note on the patient to access contact information

Lab will complete the following steps automatically:

• Reporting of positive HIV through confirmation testing - Notify provider and fax report to Infection Control
• Reporting of positive Syphilis through confirmation testing - Results are included in an automated reportable diseases report, which is electronically submitted to the Kansas City Health Department daily

Primary Care Clinic:

•  STI test results are sent back within 2 - 5 days to the provider
• Provider to order treatment and forward test results to the clinic nurse
• The clinic nurse will call the teen with positive test results and assist with coordinating treatment

Teen Clinic/Adolescent Specialty Clinic

• STI test results are sent back within 2 - 5 days to the provider 
• All teens are provided with a callback number for test results 
• Provider to order treatment and forward test results to the clinic nurse
•  The clinic nurse will call the teen with positive test results and assist with coordinating treatment

Urgent Care and Emergency Department

*STI testing is not routinely performed in the urgent care clinic, but will follow the steps below if STI testing is completed:

• STI test results are sent back within 2 - 5 days to the provider 
• Follow-up nursing staff to call the patient if test results are positive 

Inpatient

• STI test results are sent back within 2 - 5 days to the attending provider 
• Provider to begin treatment for those patients with positive test results

**If there is no success with patient contact, the clinic nurse will notify Infection Control @ icteam@cmh.edu

These pathways do not establish a standard of care to be followed in every case. It is recognized that each case is different, and those individuals involved in providing health care are expected to use their judgment in determining what is in the best interests of the patient based on the circumstances existing at the time. It is impossible to anticipate all possible situations that may exist and to prepare a pathway for each. Accordingly, these pathways should guide care with the understanding that departures from them may be required at times.