Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care [Cascade of Care] at a Comprehensive Health System (Detroit/Henry Ford health System)...78% not screened for HCV
....78% not screened for HCV...1.3% tested HCV+ / 109 patients tested HCV+ / 30 received treatment / 70 not treated & 4 had undetectable viral load....66% had HCV-RNA / 49% evaluated by HCV specialist
Reported by Jules Levin
CROI 2016
Feb 22-24 Boston
Kassem Bourgi MD1, Indira Brar MD2, Kimberly Baker-Genaw MD1
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Division of Infectious Diseases Henry Ford Hospital / Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
we evaluated the current HCV screening rates
along with linkage to care for patients with active disease.
