TABLE 3.

Triage Criteria for Identifying Patients Needing a Clinician Evaluation in the Optimized Algorithm, the Public Health–Seattle and King County STD Clinic Current Algorithm as of October 1, 2015, and a Simple Algorithm

Triage Criteria Indicating Need for a Standard Visit	Optimized Algorithm – Men	Optimized Algorithm – Women*	Current Algorithm	Simple Algorithm
Key symptoms†	✓	✓
Any symptoms			✓	✓
Contact to STD/HIV	✓	✓	✓	✓
Positive STD result from another provider and needs treatment	✓	✓	✓
Sex partner with symptoms	✓	✓	✓
≥4 sex partners in the past 2 months		✓
<40 years old		✓
≤18 years old			✓
Has HIV and has not had an HIV care visit in the past 9 months			✓
Has hepatitis C and wants a referral for care			✓
Has genital herpes and wants preventive or suppressive medication			✓
Heterosexually active female who wants to discuss contraception			✓
Female requesting emergency contraception			✓
Female ≥21 years old who has not had a Pap test in the past year			✓
Ever had a transgender sex partner			✓
Is transgender			✓

Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; STD, sexually transmitted disease.

^*Algorithm includes interactions among some of these criteria, so not all patients meeting an individual criterion would be triaged to standard visits.

^†Key symptoms include anogenital symptoms, abdominal pain (for women), body rash, or symptoms concerning to the patient for acute HIV infection.