COMMUNITY PHARMACY HELPS DIAGNOSE PEOPLE WITH HEPATITIS C

摘要

Community pharmacists can identify people with undiagnosed hepatitis C, according to research published in Clinical Pharmacist (online, 5 August 2016). In pharmacies on the Isle of Wight, community pharmacists were trained to offer dry blood spot tests to anyone attending needle exchange and opiate substitution therapy. They performed tests on 88 adults for hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B, HIV and syphilis.