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. 2024 Jun 18;16(6):979. doi: 10.3390/v16060979

Table 1.

The hepatitis C care cascade by specialty for patients with injecting-drug-use-related episodes, 2018–2021.

Specialty Episodes (n = 1643) Unique Patients (n = 1345) Antibody Testing, n (% of Patients) Antibody Positive, n (% of Total Antibody Testing) RNA Testing, n (% of Antibody Positive) RNA Positive, n (% of Total RNA Testing)
Hepatitis specialist 14 (0.9%) 12 (85.7%) 0 (0%; 0) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Emergency 820 (49.9%) 694 (84.6%) 24 (3.5%) 14 (26.9%) 2 (14.3%) 3 (60%)
Surgical 121 (7.4%) 111 (91.7%) 5 (4.5%) 7 (50%) 0 (0%) 2 (50%)
General Medicine 371 (22.6%) 325 (87.6%) 14 (4.3%) 16 (41%) 2 (12.5%) 3 (37.5%)
Mental Health 103 (6.3%) 91 (88.3%) 8 (8.8%) 6 (54.5%) 1 (16.7%) 1 (100%)
Obstetrics and Gynecology 26 (1.6%) 24 (92.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Other specialty medicine 188 (11.4%) 139 (73.9%) 6 (4.3%) 6 (28.6%) 1 (16.7%) 5 (83.3%)
Total 1643 1345 98 (7.3%) 38 (38.8%) 23 (60.5%) 22 (95.7%)