Self Sampling for Rapid Turnaround Testing in the Emergency Department

This is a prospective, non-inferiority trial comparing two methods of collection using a US Food and Drug Administration- cleared 90-minute rapid nucleic acid amplification assay, the Xpert CT/NG assay. Any adult female patient admitted to the Emergency Department at Community Regional Medical Center felt by the provider to require gonorrhea/chlamydia endocervical testing may be entered in the study.

provider-performed endocervical sampling is the gold standard for both gonorrhea and chlamydia. The provider takes a endocervical sample which will get sent to the laboratory as the standard care in comparison to the device being studied.