Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Best Practice Testing Failed to ID Hidden HCV Infections

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Best Practice Testing Failed to ID Hidden HCV Infections
Veronica Hackethal, MD
January 08, 2018

A best practices strategy to improve detection of hepatitis B (HBV) and HCV virus infections had high uptake but failed to find undiagnosed HCV infections, a study found.

The study, published online January 8 in the Annals of Family Medicine, is the first conducted in Europe to use a strategy that combines public health and primary care in birth cohort testing of hotspots with high HCV prevalence.

"Because no active HCV infections were found in the identified hotspots, it is likely that the strategy taken would not be effective in other areas of the Netherlands and other low-prevalence countries," Jeanne Heil, MSc, from the Public Health Service, South Limburg, Heerlen, the Netherlands, and colleagues write...

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