Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 4SR0x1l8. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. To estimate the prevalence of infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV) in general practice, and to investigate attitudes to screening for HCV, a specific questionnaire was sent to the sentinel general practitioners (SGPs) of the French Sentinel Network. From the figures reported by SGPs. the number of anti-HCV tests performed in general practice during the six months before the survey (July-December 1994) was extrapolated to about 350.000 tests for the whole of France during all of 1994 (95% CI : 314,000 382,000). Of the 312 participating SGPs. 224 (72%) had prescribed at least one anti-HCV test during these six months, and 217 (70%) knew of at least one anti-HCV-positive patient in their practice. With regard to their screening attitudes. 244 SGPs (78%) said they had prescribed anti-HCV tests for patients with no signs of previous or recent hepatitis infection : SGPs who had at least two HCV-positive patients in their practice were more likely to screen for anti-HCV than SGPs who did not (94% VS. 72%, p
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