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Low Yield of Hepatitis C Infection in an Outreach Screening Program in Harris County, Texas
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 2;7(7):ofaa191. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa191. eCollection 2020 Jul.
Hyun-Seok Kim1, Rosalia Guerrero2, Shane W Reader3, Maria Daheri4, Maya Balakrishnan1, Catherine L Troisi2, Hashem B El-Serag1, Aaron P Thrift35
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1Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
2Management, Policy and Community Health, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA.
3Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
4Harris Health System, Houston, Texas, USA.
5Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Abstract
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.