A Missed Opportunity: Hepatitis C Screening of Prisoners

In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued recommendations to screen all inmates with a history of injection drug use or other risk factors for hepatitis C. We compared self-reported risk factors for hepatitis C with serostatus from inmates in the Rhode Island Department of Corre...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of public health (1971) 2005-10, Vol.95 (10), p.1739-1740
Hauptverfasser:	Macalino, Grace E, Dhawan, Darpun, Rich, Josiah D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adult AIDS Analysis of Variance Asymptomatic Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Bias Biological and medical sciences Confidentiality Correctional institutions Disease control Disease prevention Drug use Education Female Hepatitis Hepatitis C Hepatitis C - diagnosis Hepatitis C - epidemiology Hepatitis C - etiology Hepatitis C virus Human viral diseases Humans Imprisonment Infections Infectious diseases Male Mandatory Testing Mass Screening - methods Mass Screening - standards Medical sciences Medical screening Middle Aged Miscellaneous Population Population Surveillance Practice Guidelines as Topic Prevalence Prisoners Prisoners - statistics & numerical data Prisons Public health Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Research and Practice Rhode Island - epidemiology Risk Assessment Risk Factors Self report Seroepidemiologic Studies Stigma Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications Substance Abuse, Intravenous - diagnosis Surveys and Questionnaires - standards Viral diseases Viral hepatitis Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:	In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued recommendations to screen all inmates with a history of injection drug use or other risk factors for hepatitis C. We compared self-reported risk factors for hepatitis C with serostatus from inmates in the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. Of the male inmates who were hepatitis C positive, 66% did not report injection drug use. Risk-based testing underestimates the hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in correctional settings and limits the opportunity to diagnose and prevent hepatitis C infection.
ISSN:	0090-0036 1541-0048
DOI:	10.2105/AJPH.2004.056291