ArticleIrish journal of medical science
Assessment of hepatitis C infection in injecting drug users attending an addiction treatment clinic.
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- Personality dysfunction in opiate addicts on opioid substitution treatment and the risk of HCV infection.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Hepatitis C virus infection in Irish drug users and prisoners - a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- 'HepCheck Dublin': an intensified hepatitis C screening programme in a homeless population demonstrates the need for alternative models of care.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundInjecting drug users represent a high risk group for hepatitis C (HCV) infection. Currently, screening of this group for HCV is inconsistently implemented.
aimWe designed a HCV assessment algorithm and sought to determine the frequency with which injecting drug users completed the assessment process.
methodsProspective study of a HCV assessment algorithm in the setting of a specialist outpatient addiction treatment clinic. Participants consisted of consecutive new attenders over a six-month period with a history of injecting.
resultsOnly 21 (18%) of 119 patients reached a satisfactory endpoint of assessment. Forty-eight injectors were tested for antibody to HCV, of whom 26 (54%) tested positive. Thirteen of those with positive test results were no longer attending when the test result became available. Only four of the 19 patients who were referred, attended the on-site hepatology clinic.
conclusionsThorough screening of injecting drug users for HCV within one treatment service is difficult. There is a need for explicit policies on this issue involving co-operation between primary care providers and addiction services and hepatology services.
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