Hepatitis C Diagnoses in an American Indian Primary Care Population

• Main Authors: Norton, Hillary E., Redd, John T., Bryan, Ralph T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2012
• Subjects: Communicable diseases; Community/public health; Diagnostic services; Hepatitis C; Indians of North America; Infectious Disease; Liver – Diseases; Primary Care Issues; Special population: Native American/First Nations; Community-Based Research; Demography; Population; and Ecology; Inequality and Stratification; Medicine and Health; Public Health; Race and Ethnicity; Eia; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol3/iss2/5; https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=jhdrp

BACKGROUND: Despite large disparities in the burden of chronic liver disease, data on hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among American Indians (AIs) are lacking. We reviewed hepatitis C diagnoses in 35,712 AI/AN primary care patients. MAIN FINDINGS: At least one HCV-associated ICD-9 code was recorde...