1. Patient default rate A retrospective sample of female cases of gonorrhoea treated in clinics in England and Wales during 1978 found that "six per cent of contacts who had negative smear results at their initial visit, were not treated epidemiologically, but were subsequently proved to be infected by culture defaulted before treatment. Among patients who attended with a contact slip, however, the default rate was only 2% compared with 14% among those who gave a verbal history of exposure to gonorrhoea".'4
2. A rational basis for the epidemiologic treatment of gonorrhoea in a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases;Judson, F.N.; Maltz, A.B.;Sex Transm Dis,1978
3. Diagnostic, treatment and reporting criteria for gonorrhoea in sexually transmitted disease clinics in England and Wales: 2 Treatment and reporting criteria;Adler, M.W.;BrJr Venereal Dis,1978
4. "Epidemiological" treatment in venereal diseases other than syphilis;Willcox, R.;BrJ Venereal Dis,1973
5. In: Anglo-Scandinavian Congress on Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Oriel JD;Gonorrhoea, Danielsson D.,1978