Narrative reviewindependent cross-checkabstract only checked I-ABX-10 standard review
Pelvic inflammatory disease: management
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention.
Overview
Curry A et al.. Am Fam Physician 2019 · PMID 31524362
Untreated infection (often gonorrhoea or chlamydia) can cause infertility; antibiotics are the treatment.
Does the study support the specific claim? No · Methodological quality: moderate
Plain-language summary
Study explained simply
- What did the researchers want to find out?
Summarise care.
- How was the study done?
Review.
- What was actually found?
Antibiotics needed; complications if untreated.
- What do the results mean in everyday life?
STIs need treatment.
- What are the study's limitations?
Narrative.
- What does it say about Elawady's specific claim?
Contradicts claim.
- Do the results apply to Germany and Europe?
High.
Scientific in-depth review
1. Full reference
- Authors
- Curry A et al.
- Journal
- Am Fam Physician
- Year
- 2019
- Identifier
- PMID 31524362
- Verification
- verified – PubMed efetch 2026-10-25
- Retracted
- no
- Corrections
- none
- Extent checked
- abstract only
- Conflicts of interest and funding
not stated in abstract/record
2. Research question
Diagnosis, management and prevention of PID
3. Study design and population
- Study design
- Narrative review – Clinical review
- Population
Sexually active women
- Country
USA
- Period
2019
4. Methods and endpoints
5. Actual results
- Results
C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae are common causes; untreated PID can lead to chronic pelvic pain, infertility, ectopic pregnancy and intra-abdominal infections; treatment with cephalosporin plus doxycycline; partner treatment recommended.
- Absolute risks
not reported
- Authors' conclusion
Empiric antibiotic treatment recommended.
6. Strengths
- Clinical guidance summary
7. Weaknesses
- Narrative review
8. Risk of bias
- Orienting tool
- none applicable
- Type of assessment
- simplified assessment (abstract only)
- Full formal assessment
- no
- Overall risk of bias
- not assessable
9. Assessment of the statistical interpretation
10. Relevance to the specific claim
Contradicts C-ABX-13.
11. Independent contrary findings
12. Transferability to Germany and Europe
High.
13. Overall methodological judgement
Standard clinical knowledge.
| Multidimensional assessment | |
|---|---|
| Authenticity of the source | verified |
| Methodological quality | moderate |
| Risk of bias | not assessable |
| Precision of results | not applicable |
| Directness | indirect |
| Reproducibility | replicated |
| Consistency with the overall evidence | consistent |
| Regional transferability | high |
| Adequacy of the interpretation (by the archive) | not applicable |
14. Open questions
15. Linked fact checks
- Gonorrhoea can be cured without antibiotics by fasting with him and following his diet for six days. – Studies contradicting or limiting the claim