Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Issue 8 (August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chou, Roger; Dana, Tracy; Fu, Rongwei; Zakher, Bernadette; Wagner, Jesse; Ramirez, Shaun; Grusing, Sara; Jou, Janice H.
• Is Part Of: Obstetrical & gynecological survey. Volume 75:Issue 8(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-08
• Subjects: Obstetrics -- Periodicals; Gynecology -- Periodicals; Generative organs, Female -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 618
• DOI: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000697376.56943.de
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0029-7828

Abstract

Abstract : (Abstracted from JAMA 2020;323(10):976–992) From 2013 to 2016, approximately 1.4 million people in the United States had active infection of hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is estimated that people born between 1945 and 1965 make up approximately three-quarters of HCV infections.