Laying the foundations for hepatitis C elimination: evaluating the development and contribution of community care pathways to diagnostic efforts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a public health threat which contributes substantially to the global burden of liver disease. There is much debate about effective approaches to scaling up diagnosis of HCV among risk groups. Tayside, a region in the East of Scotland, developed low-threshold community pathways for HCV to lay the foundations of an elimination strategy. In this retrospective study, we sought to: quantify the contribution of community pathways to increasing HCV diagnosis; understand if shifting diagnosis to community settings led to a higher proportion of individuals tested for HCV being actively infected; and describe functional characteristics of the care pathways.

Methods

Descriptive statistics were used to for analysis of routinely-collected HCV testing

SUBMITTER: Robinson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826577 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature