Table 5.

Characteristics and Follow-up Among Patients With Positive Test for CT Infection But Not Empirically Treated

	Positive CT Lab Test With No Empiric Treatment (n=29)
	Documented Follow-up (total n=22)	No Documented Follow-up (total n=7)
Characteristics	n (%)	n (%)	P Value
Sex			.197
Female	13 (68.4%)	6 (31.6%)
Male	9 (90.0%)	1 (10.0%)
Age			.947
≤25	16 (76.2%)	5 (23.8%)
>25	6 (75.0%)	2 (25.0%)
Housing status*			.082
Housed	6 (100%)	0 (0%)
Unstably housed	10 (83.3%)	2 (16.7%)
Street homeless	6 (54.5%)	5 (45.5%)
% of federal poverty level (FPL)			.121
≤100% FPL	16 (69.6%)	7 (30.4%)
>100% FPL	6 (100%)	0 (0%)
Race			.039
White	13 (92.9%)	1 (7.1%)
Non-White	9 (60.0%)	6 (40.0%)
Ethnicity			.554
Non-Hispanic	18 (78.3%)	5 (21.7%)
Hispanic	4 (66.7%)	2 (33.3%)
Reported STI symptoms and/or exposure			.321
Yes	11 (68.8%)	5 (31.3%)
No	11 (84.6%)	2 (15.4%)

Bold indicates statistically significant at P<.05.

Data source: electronic record data from an urban safety net clinic (validated through manual chart review).

CT—chlamydia trachomatis

STI—sexually transmitted infection

^*For a description of housing status categories—see footnote for Table 1.