Starcher E T, Kramer M A, Carlota-Orduna B, Lundberg D F
Am J Public Health. 1983 Dec;73(12):1381-4. doi: 10.2105/ajph.73.12.1381.
From February through December 1978, venereal disease casefinders in Polk County, Iowa used an expanded interview period of at least 120 days to interview 983 gonorrhea patients for sexual partner information. We grouped patients according to sex and clinical findings and evaluated the percentage of all new cases identified by time intervals within the expanded interview period. Ninety-one per cent of all untreated, infected sexual partners of symptomatic males were identified by using an interview period which spanned the interval from date of treatment to 15 days before symptom onset. In contrast, the traditional 30-day interview period missed 23 per cent of those untreated, infected partners named by women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), 34 per cent of those partners named by women with uncomplicated gonorrhea, and 29 per cent of those named by asymptomatic men. The Polk County data suggest the importance of basing interview periods upon a patient's sex and clinical presentation.
1978年2月至12月期间，爱荷华州波尔克县的性病调查人员采用了至少120天的延长访谈期，对983名淋病患者进行访谈，以获取性伴侣信息。我们根据性别和临床检查结果对患者进行分组，并评估在延长访谈期内按时间间隔确定的所有新病例的百分比。通过使用从治疗日期到症状出现前15天的访谈期，91%有症状男性的所有未治疗、受感染的性伴侣得以确定。相比之下，传统的30天访谈期遗漏了23%由盆腔炎（PID）女性指出的未治疗、受感染伴侣，34%由无并发症淋病女性指出的伴侣，以及29%由无症状男性指出的伴侣。波尔克县的数据表明，根据患者的性别和临床表现确定访谈期非常重要。
