| Description |
Hepatitis C Antibody Positive (Reference #2)
looking for are evidence of presence of antibody to Hepatitis C, whether
it be recorded as "weakly positive", "strongly positive", "positive", or
"present". If other phrases are used to describe a test result, one should
be able to differentiate the results upon entry into the program. As an
example, the words, "present" and "not present" would not allow retrieval
of only positive cases as both phrases contain the word, "present".
Hepatitis C is much more prevalent than originally thought at least in
certain key patient sub-populations. As new and more sensitive assays come
into use, we seem to find more evidence of this pathogen. We are looking for
evidence of exposure to Hepatitis C in patients as demonstrated by Hepatitis
C antibody positivity. The need for confirmatory testing or demonstration of
active disease is not currently necessary in gathering data for this program.
Different facilities may use different assays for this test. What we are
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