Best Practices for Sensitive Exams

These guidelines provide recommendations for best practices around sensitive exams for a consistent and safe environment for care on college campuses; they promote patient safety and mitigate risk.

Given the lack of consistent recommendations from other major organizations on chaperoning for sensitive exams and a scarcity of data on outcomes and patient satisfaction with chaperoning, ACHA has created these guidelines to promote patient safety and mitigate risk. It is ACHA’s recommendation that as part of institutional policy, a chaperone be provided for every sensitive medical examination and procedure.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide recommendations for a consistent and safe environment for care on college campuses. The recommendations on policy development promote respect for patient dignity and the professional nature of a sensitive medical examination or procedure.