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

Daniel Winetsky | Zendy; Jason Zucker | Zendy; J Słowikowski | Zendy; Matthew Scherer | Zendy; Elizabeth C. Verna | Zendy; Peter Gordon | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Daniel Winetsky,

Jason Zucker,

J Słowikowski,

Matthew Scherer,

Elizabeth C. Verna,

Peter Gordon

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofz178

Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , pediatrics , population , hepatitis c virus , cohort study , virus , virology , environmental health

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.

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