Risk-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Pregnancy Is Less Reliable Than Universal Screening: A Retrospective Chart Review

Current guidelines recommend only hepatitis C virus (HCV) risk-based screening during pregnancy. We examined screening practices at a major medical center and found inconsistent risk-based screening and the presence of HCV among women with no known risk factors. We make a case for the implementation...

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Autores principales: Boudova, Sarah, Mark, Katrina, El-Kamary, Samer S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy043
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spelling pubmed-58462932018-03-21 Risk-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Pregnancy Is Less Reliable Than Universal Screening: A Retrospective Chart Review Boudova, Sarah Mark, Katrina El-Kamary, Samer S Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Current guidelines recommend only hepatitis C virus (HCV) risk-based screening during pregnancy. We examined screening practices at a major medical center and found inconsistent risk-based screening and the presence of HCV among women with no known risk factors. We make a case for the implementation of universal HCV screening during pregnancy. Oxford University Press 2018-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5846293/ /pubmed/29564364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy043 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_fullStr Risk-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Pregnancy Is Less Reliable Than Universal Screening: A Retrospective Chart Review
title_full_unstemmed Risk-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Pregnancy Is Less Reliable Than Universal Screening: A Retrospective Chart Review
title_short Risk-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Pregnancy Is Less Reliable Than Universal Screening: A Retrospective Chart Review
title_sort risk-based hepatitis c screening in pregnancy is less reliable than universal screening: a retrospective chart review
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564364
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