Hepatitis C Virus: Patients' Risk Factors and Knowledge in an Urban Clinic Providing Wound Care.

CONCLUSIONS: This urban clinic had patients with multiple HCV risk factors; they often lacked HCV screening and/or referral for treatment. Their HCV knowledge was generally low. As a major public health problem that could impact wound healing, wound care practitioners should ask patients about their HCV status, encourage HCV screening and care, and provide HCV information. PMID: 29166253 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Wounds - Category: General Medicine Tags: Wounds Source Type: research