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. 2019 Apr 10;6(5):ofz178.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz178. eCollection 2019 May.

Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945-1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?

Daniel Winetsky  1   2   3 , Jason Zucker  1   2   4 , Jacek Slowikowski  1 , Matthew Scherer  1   2 , Elizabeth C Verna  5 , Peter Gordon  1   2
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Preliminary Screening Results Outside the 1945-1965 Birth Cohort: A Forgotten Population for Hepatitis C?

Daniel Winetsky et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .

Abstract

In December 2017, our academic medical center implemented universal hepatitis C virus screening among adult hospitalized patients. We reviewed charts of patients screening positive outside the birth cohort (1945-1965) in the first 6 months after implementation. Documented risk factors were common in younger patients but rare in patients born before 1945.

Keywords: HCV epidemiology; hepatitis C infection; quality improvement; social vulnerability; universal screening.

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