Confirmation of guideline-defined hepatitis C screening strategies within the 'Check-Up35+' examination in the primary care setting.

David PetroffIngmar WolfframOlaf BätzKatrin JedrysiakJan KramerThomas BergJohannes Wiegand

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2023)

We confirm prospectively the efficiency of a risk-based HCV screening. The risk-based algorithm should be evaluated in other countries with similarly low HCV prevalence as in Germany to achieve WHO HCV elimination goals.

Keyphrases

hepatitis c virus
primary care
human immunodeficiency virus
machine learning
risk factors
public health
hiv infected
breast cancer risk