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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doesn't roll out any screening programs, their job is simply to make clinical recommendations. So they are saying to cl
by astura 7y ago
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doesn't roll out any screening programs, their job is simply to make clinical recommendations.
So they are saying to clinicians "if you have a patient between 18 and 80 then current evidence suggests that screening for Hep C is more beneficial than harmful on a large scale, even if the patient has no symptoms." Plus governments would likely use recommendations to base laws around this stuff, something like passing a law that says "insurance companies must cover the cost of Hep C testing even in the absence of symptoms" and military officials may make Hep C screening as a part of a standard military physical.
Of course, I've found most clinicians ignore evidence based recommendations, but that's a different topic entirely....