Evaluation of a universal vs a targeted hepatitis C virus screening strategy among pregnant women at the Vienna University Hospital.

A universal vs a targeted hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening policy for identifying pregnant women with the virus were compared. Universal screening did not yield significantly more identification of patients with HCV than targeted screening. However, 14 of 67 (21%) women with confirmed HCV would not have been detected by targeted risk-based HCV screening. Copyright (C) 2013 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.