Definitions for Survey Terms

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Term	Definition
Across the board	Process in which changes in spending or staffing are applied to all categories of an organization, usually in a manner proportional to each category’s share of staffing or budgeting before the change. Example: A department has 2 branches, one with 30% of department staff and the other with 70%. An across-the-board cut of 10 staff members would probably cut 3 staff members from the first branch and 7 from the second.
Expedited partner therapy (EPT)	Clinical practice of treating the sex partners of persons who receive chlamydia or gonorrhea diagnoses by providing medications or prescriptions to the patient. The patient then provides therapies to the partner.
Field-delivered treatment	Health department staff providing treatment directly to partners in a non-clinical setting without examination by a clinician.
General public health clinic	A clinic that sees patients requesting all types of care.
Partner services	Partner services refers to activities undertaken by the health department that are designed to lead to examination or treatment of partners of persons diagnosed with an STD. Partner services refers to health department staff proactively interviewing cases to facilitate getting partners examined and treated. Informing patients to refer their partners for examination and treatment without further assistance is not considered to be partner services for the purposes of this survey.
Safety net STD services	Refers to the provision of affordable care for uninsured or underinsured persons.
Specialized STD clinic	A clinic devoted to the examination and treatment of STDs or to a clinic that has hours and staff devoted wholly to STD services. Multi-role clinics, such as maternal and child health or primary care are not considered to be specialized STD clinics for the purposes of this survey.