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
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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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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author Kim, Hyun-seok
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description 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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spelling pubmed-73365472020-07-13 Low Yield of Hepatitis C Infection in an Outreach Screening Program in Harris County, Texas Kim, Hyun-seok Guerrero, Rosalia Reader, Shane W Daheri, Maria Balakrishnan, Maya Troisi, Catherine L El-Serag, Hashem B Thrift, Aaron P Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report 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. Oxford University Press 2020-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7336547/ /pubmed/32665957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa191 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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