Birth cohort screening for hepatitis C is cost effective, could save thousands of lives each year
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
According to a new study being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, birth cohort screening for hepatitis C is cost effective in the primary care setting. A proactive screening strategy could identify over 800,000 currently unidentified cases, which could save many thousands of lives each year.