BOSTON – The call to screen Baby Boomers for hepatitis C virus infections appears to have gone unheeded so far, results from a Chicago primary care clinic show.
Screening increased by only 2% among some 25,000 patients seen in the primary care clinic of the University of Chicago after the 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to screen adults born between 1945 and 1965, Dr. Mansi Kothari reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
On a positive note, Dr. Kothari of the University of Chicago Medical Center noted in an interview that if a patient tested positive for hepatitis C virus, rates of additional testing and referral to a hepatologist remained high.
Dr. Kothari reported no financial disclosures.