Development and Validation of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Patient Milestones in the Hepatitis C Virus Care Cascade

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Jul 3;5(7):ofy153. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy153. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Disease-specific care cascades are important public health and organizational tools to characterize gaps in care and target resources, but they are labor-intensive to maintain. Using data available from the electronic medical record, we developed an algorithm with high accuracy for correctly representing an individual's status in the hepatitis C virus care cascade.

Keywords: HCV care cascade; HCV epidemiology; HCV treatment; hepatitis C.