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.

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.

Keywords: HCV infection; prevention; screening.