Figures & data
Fig. 1 The percentage of physicians (n = 42, 2009 data) and community nurses (n = 20, 2010 data) in Yukon, Canada reporting 15–24 year-old female and male patients presenting with a sexual health concern or complaint, conducting sexual health assessments, and testing for chlamydia greater than half the time as a proportion of all visits in their practice in the previous month.
Table I The association of patients presenting with a sexual health concern or physicians asking sexual health assessment questions and physicians testing for chlamydia (2009 data, Yukon, Canada)
Table II Percentage of physicians (n=42, 2009 data) and community nurses (n=20, 2010 data) in Yukon, Canada, reporting triggers for screening (indicators for laboratory testing) for chlamydia among their female and male patients
Table III Comparison of self-reported frequencies for general practice physicians from Yukon, Canada (2009 data), and general practice physicians from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2006 data), asking sexual health assessment questions and testing for chlamydia among their 15 to 24-year-old female patients
Table IV Association of physician practice location and physician-reported frequency of testing for chlamydia as a proportion of all patient visits in the previous month (2009 data for Yukon, Canada; 2006 data for Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Fig. 2 Percentage of physicians (n=42, 2009 data) and community nurses (n=20, 2010 data) in Yukon, Canada reporting barriers to discussing chlamydia screening with their patients.
Fig. 3 Percentage of physicians (n=42, 2009 data) and community nurses (n=20, 2010 data) in Yukon, Canada reporting barriers to offering chlamydia screening to their patients.
Fig. 4 Number of chlamydia laboratory tests conducted in Yukon, Canada for females and for males, 2007–11. Numbers of lab tests by sex were imputed for 2010, calculated based on the total number of chlamydia lab tests for 2010 and an average proportion of tests for males and females between 2009 and 2011.
