| Autor: |
Javier Martínez-Sanz, María Jesús Vivancos-Gallego, Borja Manuel Fernández-Felix, Alfonso Muriel, Pilar Pérez-Elías, Almudena Uranga, Beatriz Romero, Juan Carlos Galán, Santiago Moreno, María Jesús Pérez-Elías |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Microbiology Spectrum, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2165-0497 |
| DOI: |
10.1128/spectrum.02286-21 |
| Popis: |
ABSTRACT Despite the effectiveness of available treatments, hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a major public health problem, mainly due to the high percentage of undiagnosed individuals. We aim to create an easy-to-implement risk score to facilitate targeted HCV testing in the general population. This is a substudy derived from a prospective study in primary care in Madrid (Spain). Participants completed a 21-question risk assessment questionnaire, followed by HCV testing for those with at least one positive response and those >50 years of age, even if they did not answer positively. We used the population >50 years of age to fit a logistic regression model to create a score predicting the risk of a positive test result. We then performed a sensitivity analysis by applying the score obtained to the population |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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