TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title"><em>Chlamydia</em> Rapid Test was moderately accurate for diagnosing <em>Chlamydia</em> infection in women</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">Commentary</span> JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 89 LP - 89 DO - 10.1136/ebn.11.3.89 VL - 11 IS - 3 AU - M Kay Libbus Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/11/3/89.abstract N2 - H H LeeDr H H Lee, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; hl207@cam.ac.ukIs Chlamydia Rapid Test accurate for screening for and diagnosing Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women?Design:blinded comparison of Chlamydia Rapid Test with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.Setting:young people’s sexual health centre (site 1) and 2 genitourinary medicine clinics (sites 2 and 3) in the UK.Participants:1349 women ⩾16 years of age who had not taken antibiotics in the previous month, were not currently menstruating, and provided valid samples (93% of eligible participants). Most women at site 1 (n = 663, mean age 19 y) were asymptomatic; about 67% of women at the genitourinary medicine clinics (n = 385, mean age 25 y at site 2; n = 301, mean age 28 y at site 3) were … ER -