Research Article Hepatitis B Vaccination and Screening Awareness in Primary Care

Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. The goals of Healthy People US 2020 have called for increased screening and vaccination of high-risk groups for Hepatitis B (HBV).Methods.We performed a survey of 400 randomly chosen primary care practitioners (PCPs) in Wisconsin to assess their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding screening and vaccination for HBV. Results. Screening rates of patients at risk of sexual transmission were low, with 61 % of respondents stating that they screen patients who had more than 1 sex partner in 6 months and 86 % screening patients with a history of sex with prostitutes. Screening rate for persons with a history of intravenou