Su1039 HCV Screening of the “Baby Boomer” Generation Increased Significantly Following 2012 CDC Call to Action: Results of a National Lab Test Database Analysis

Advancing the Public’s Health by Scaling Innovations in Clinical Quality

“…54 Although challenges to screening adoption remain, 55,56 evidence suggests that the HCV screening rate for the target population increased by as much as 10% from July 2012 to July 2014. 57 Individual primary care practices have seen greater increases in HCV screening rates when they incorporated a clinical decision support tool in their electronic health record compared with when no clinical decision support tool was added. For example, in one practice, HCV screening rates among patients with no previous testing increased 254% with the help of an electronic clinical reminder.…”