Blood recipient notification for hepatitis C in Prince Edward Island

LD Van Til, LE Sweet - CMAJ, 2000 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Two of the major risk factors for hepatitis C are injection drug use and receipt of
blood or blood products. Many patients are unaware that they have received transfusions. In …

Results of a hepatitis C general transfusion lookback program for patients who received blood products before July 1992

JL Williams, HH Cagle, CJ Christensen… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend hepatitis C
virus (HCV) antibody (anti‐HCV) screening for persons who received blood products before …

Lack of awareness of hepatitis C risk among persons who received blood transfusions before 1990.

J Buffington, R Rowel, JM Hinman… - American journal of …, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common chronic bloodborne virus infection in the United
States, with an estimated 2.7 million persons chronically infected. 1 The Centers for Disease …

Targeted hepatitis C lookback: Quebec, Canada

A Long, G Spurll, H Demers, M Goldman - Transfusion, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Since March 1990, all blood donations in Canada are screened for
antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Because HCV may cause chronic asymptomatic …

A Canadian hospital-based HIV/hepatitis C look-back notification program

N Heddle, JG Kelton, F Smaill, K Foss, J Everson… - CMAJ, 1997 - Can Med Assoc
OBJECTIVE: To describe the process used to notify pediatric patients who received
transfusions of blood or blood products at our institution before donor blood was routinely …

Evaluation of the effectiveness of targeted lookback for HCV infection in the United States—interim results

DH Culver, MJ Alter, RJ Mullan, HS Margolis - Transfusion, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: As part of a nationwide program to identify persons at increased risk for
HCV infection, persons who received blood from donors who later tested positive for anti …

An evaluation of the process and costs associated with targeted lookbacks for HCV and general notification of transfusion recipients

JL Callum, PH Pinkerton, AS Coovadia… - …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada recommended
that hospitals notify patients who received blood between 1978 and May 1990 of the risks of …

Hepatitis C lookback programme: a single hospital experience

Pawson, Rajan, Hazlehurst, Dusheiko… - Transfusion …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
As part of the national Hepatitis C (HCV) Lookback Programme, HCV‐infected donors
donating blood after September 1991 were identified and the fate of their previous donations …

Hepatitis C update: implications of the blood transfusion" lookback".

ZM Younossi, PE Canuto - Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, 1998 - europepmc.org
Over the next several years, physicians will be called upon to notify past blood transfusion
recipients of blood that may have been contaminated with hepatitis C virus (HCV). This …

[PDF][PDF] Hepatitis C and blood transfusion look back

KC Calman - Letter from the Chief Medical Officer …, 1995 - infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk
1. Recipients of blood or blood components from donors now known to be carriers of
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) are being traced with a view to providing counselling, testing and …