One question from clinic, why a young adult with an ankle sprain was screened for hepatitis C, gets a two-source answer and two replies in NU569's Unit 2 board sample. Searches like "nu 569 unit 2 assignment example", "nu569 unit 2 sample" and "nu569 unit 2 example" land here.
Why Screen a Man With No Risk Factors? A Hepatitis C Test Added to an Ankle Visit
NU569 · Unit 2 Discussion
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Initial Post
Why would we screen a man with no risk factors for hepatitis C during an ankle visit? The patient was a 34-year-old line cook with an inversion sprain. He reported no injection drug use, no transfusions and no time in prison. My preceptor asked whether he had ever been tested for hepatitis C, and when he said no, added the antibody test with his agreement, saying, "Everyone gets this once now."
I looked up what "now" meant. Two documents shifted screening from risk-based to universal in 2020. A grade B recommendation covers every adult from 18 through 79 (US Preventive Services Task Force, 2020). The CDC recommends screening at least once for all adults 18 and older, and during every pregnancy, except where prevalence is very low (Schillie et al., 2020). They agree on the core, one-time screening of adults regardless of risk, and differ at the edges: the CDC has no upper age limit and adds pregnancy, while the Task Force stops at 79.
Both give similar reasons. New infections rose sharply among younger adults during the opioid epidemic. Many people with hepatitis C do not report a risk factor, because they do not know it, do not remember it or do not disclose it. Risk-based screening missed people like my patient, whose history gave no reason to test but whose liver would not have known that. And treatment has changed: oral direct-acting antivirals now cure most infections in eight to twelve weeks, so finding an infection leads to a cure rather than only a label.
The practical sequence matters too. A reactive antibody means he has been exposed at some point, not that he is infected now, since some people clear the virus on their own. A reflex RNA test on the same sample tells whether the virus is present. He would be told he has an active infection only if the RNA is detected.
The question changed how I see acute visits. Young adults often come to clinic only for injuries or infections. A sprained ankle may be the one visit in years where one-time screening can happen. I wonder which acute visits at other sites carry screening like this.
Reply to Keisha
Keisha, your site offers HIV screening at urgent visits, which is the same idea: once-in-a-lifetime screening that risk questions miss. Do they offer both together from one blood draw? That would make the ankle visit do double duty.
Reply to Sam
Sam, you asked whether screening people at low risk wastes money. The Task Force weighed that and still gave it a B, partly because cure is now so effective. At a single antibody test per lifetime, the cost per infection found looks different from repeated screening.
References
Schillie, S., Wester, C., Osborne, M., Wesolowski, L., & Ryerson, A. B. (2020). CDC recommendations for hepatitis C screening among adults: United States, 2020. MMWR Recommendations and Reports, 69(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.rr6902a1
US Preventive Services Task Force. (2020). Screening for hepatitis C virus infection in adolescents and adults: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. JAMA, 323(10), 970-975. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.1123
How this NU569 Unit 2 example is structured
The post runs in four moves. Its opening move states the question as it arose, since the prompt usually rewards a real puzzle over a topic chosen afterward. It then separates what the sources say from what the preceptor did, avoiding any claim about the preceptor's reasoning beyond what was said aloud. The third move, the longest, is the answer itself: the shift from risk-based to universal screening, the reasons both bodies give, namely rising infection among younger adults, the many who report no risk factor and oral treatment that now cures most infections, and the practical sequence of antibody then RNA. Last comes what the question changed, a view of the acute visit as a routine chance for prevention in adults who otherwise rarely attend. The two replies each connect a classmate's question to this one rather than simply agreeing.
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