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Volume 23, Number 2—February 2017
Research Letter

Increase in Urgent Care Center Visits for Sexually Transmitted Infections, United States, 2010–2014

William S. PearsonComments to Author , Guoyu Tao, Karen Kroeger, and Thomas A. Peterman
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table

Number of urgent care center visits by commercially insured patients during which the patient was tested for gonorrhea or chlamydia or treated for a diagnosed sexually transmitted infection, United States, 2010–2014*

Characteristic 2010 2012 2014
Total visits†
Unweighted 1,197,720 2,603,234 4,075,379
Weighted‡ 47,000,000 99,000,000 155,000,000
% Female 81.5 81.7 81.9
Average age, y
 30.7
 35.6
 36.3
Visits during which a chlamydia test was performed (CPT codes 87110, 87270, 87320, 87490, 87491, 87492, 87810)
Unweighted 1,293 2,090 3,711
Weighted 51,701 76,746 136,167
% Female 81.8 79.4 76.6
Average age, y
 31.0
 29.6
 30.7
Visits during which a gonorrhea test was performed (CPT codes 87590, 87591, 87592, 87850)
Unweighted 1,174 1,885 3,665
Weighted 47,747 69,665 134,403
% Female 82.6 80.1 76.5
Average age, y
 31.2
 29.8
 29.9
Visits during which diagnosed chlamydia was treated (ICD-9 codes 079.88, 079.98, 099.41, 099.50–099.56, 099.59)
Unweighted 133 430 988
Weighted 4,004 12,152 29,291
% Female 59.4 56.7 61.3
Average age, y
 29.7
 27.0
 26.8
Visits during which a diagnosed “unspecified venereal disease” was treated (ICD-9 codes 099.8, 099.9)
Unweighted 155 406 1,260
Weighted 4,655 11,392 35,550
% Female 55.3 49.6 50.4
Average age, y
 30.1
 30.1
 31.0
Visits during which diagnosed gonorrhea was treated (ICD-9 code 098)
Unweighted 116 224 522
Weighted 3,000 6,074 13,783
% Female 41.8 53.5 47.0
Average age, y 30.3 29.1 30.2

*CPT, Current Procedural Terminology; ICD-9, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision; STI, sexually transmitted infection.
†Includes all patients seeking care at urgent care centers for any reason.
‡Estimates are rounded to the nearest million.

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