{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chang TS"],"funding":["Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan","Chang Gung Memorial Hospital","Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan"],"pagination":["e046115"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8264874"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["11(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>Community-based screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is essential for hepatitis elimination. This study attempted to increase screening accessibility and efficacy by using alternative tools.<h4>Design</h4>Population-based prospective cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>Hepatitis elimination program at Yunlin County, Taiwan.<h4>Participants</h4>All 4552 individuals participated in 60 screening sessions of a community-based HBV and HCV screening project in five rural townships with approximately 95 000 inhabitants in central-western Taiwan.<h4>Interventions</h4>To increase accessibility, 60 outreach screening sessions were conducted in 41 disseminative sites. Quantitative HBV surface antigen (qHBsAg) and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen ("],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study."],"pmcid":["PMC8264874"],"funding_grant_id":["MOST107-2314-B182A-111","PMRPG6H0021","CMRPG6J0171"],"pubmed_authors":["Chang TS","Chiu WN","Chen WM","Lin YC","Chen MY","Lu SN","Lee CY","Huang TJ","Chang KC","Hsu NT","Hu JH","Huang WC"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>Community-based screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is essential for hepatitis elimination. This study attempted to increase screening accessibility and efficacy by using alternative tools.<h4>Design</h4>Population-based prospective cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>Hepatitis elimination program at Yunlin County, Taiwan.<h4>Participants</h4>All 4552 individuals participated in 60 screening sessions of a community-based HBV and HCV screening project in five rural townships with approximately 95 000 inhabitants in central-western Taiwan.<h4>Interventions</h4>To increase accessibility, 60 outreach screening sessions were conducted in 41 disseminative sites. Quantitative HBV surface antigen (qHBsAg) and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen (","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Jul","modification":"2025-04-26T08:15:36.907Z","creation":"2022-02-10T21:49:06.459Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8264874","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34233977"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046115"]}}