Management of Vaginal Complaints: A Pilot Study Within a Practice-Based Research Network

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Many women present in primary care with vaginal complaints. The best way of managing these complaints is unclear. This trial will test two different methods of managing patients with vaginal complaints. This is a pilot trial.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Treatments: Clindamycin; Clindamycin palmitate; Clindamycin phosphate; Fluconazole; Metronidazole; Terconazole

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Eligible patients will be premenopausal, non-pregnant women presenting with a chief complaint of vaginal itch, malodor, discharge, pain, irritation or rash. We will accept patient history of being pre-menopausal as valid.

Exclusion Criteria:

• We will exclude women over 45 who have undergone hysterectomy. We will exclude patients who cannot be reached by phone for follow-up interviews. We will exclude pregnant women because of concerns that the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial vaginosis plays a role in pre-term labor prevention.