| December 2012 · Vol. 61, No. 12: 744-746 PRACTICE ALERT
Hepatitis C: New CDC screening recommendations
Screen everyone born between 1945 and 1965—regardless of risk level.
Doug
Campos-Outcalt,
MD, MPADepartment of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
dougco@email.arizona.edu
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new recommendations for screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection that include a one-time screening for everyone in the United States born between 1945 and 1965, regardless of risk.1 These new recommendations are an enhancement of, but not a replacement for, the recommendations for HCV screening made in 1998, which called for screening those at high risk.2
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