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Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)

Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT) is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his/her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.1

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1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Expedited Partner Therapy. http://www.cdc.gov/std/ept/default.htm. Accessed: May 19, 2011.