Estimating regional prevalence of chronic hepatitis C with a capture-recapture analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a candidate disease for micro-elimination. Accurate baseline HCV prevalence estimation is essential to monitor progress to micro-elimination but can be methodologically challenging in low-endemic regions like the Netherlands due to lack of disaggregated data by age or risk-groups on the number of chronic HCV patients (i.e. HCV RNA positive). This study estimates the number of patients that has had a chronic HCV infection (ever-chronic) in the Utrecht region of the Netherlands.

Methods

In the Utrecht province in the Netherlands, positive HCV tests from the period 2001-2015 from one diagnostic center and four hospital laboratories were collected. A two-source capture-recapture method was used to analyze the overlap between th

SUBMITTER: Kracht PAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8254300 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature