Low Yield of Hepatitis C Infection in an Outreach Screening Program in Harris County, Texas

A community outreach hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection screening program provided low yield of detecting HCV-infected patients, linking them to our hepatology clinic for treatment. Our data underscore that most of the yield was related to addiction centers and birth cohort; these groups should be ta...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyun-seok, Guerrero, Rosalia, Reader, Shane W, Daheri, Maria, Balakrishnan, Maya, Troisi, Catherine L, El-Serag, Hashem B, Thrift, Aaron P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32665957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa191
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Sumario:A community outreach hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection screening program provided low yield of detecting HCV-infected patients, linking them to our hepatology clinic for treatment. Our data underscore that most of the yield was related to addiction centers and birth cohort; these groups should be targeted by future interventions.

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