Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Testing for Hepatitis B in British Columbia, Canada: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
The pandemic and related policies were associated with decreases in HBsAg and HBV DNA testing in 2020, and testing remained lower than predicted throughout 2021 and 2022. Additional efforts to increase HBV testing are needed, including strategies to ensure linkage to care for PWID.
Authors
- Michael A. Irvine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4785-8998)
- William W. L. Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4630-0052)
- Julia Li
- Jean Damascène Makuza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9275-8844)
- Alnoor Ramji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-8767)
- Dahn Jeong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-5669)
- Beate Sander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2128-9133)
- Zoë R. Greenwald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7942-3951)
- Héctor Alexander Velásquez García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-4664)
- Naveed Zafar Janjua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-719X)
- Hin Hin Ko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6433-5956)
- Yeva Sahakyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7216-064X)
- Sofia Bartlett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0699-2250)
- Jason Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7681-7573)
- Mel Krajden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3477-8748)
- Richard L. Morrow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-5197)
- Stanley Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0886-9889)
- Ji Hyun Choi
- Amanda Yu
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Toronto Public Health (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- St. Paul's Hospital (CA)
- BC Centre for Disease Control (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- St. Paul's Hospital (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf727
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.06