Improving hepatitis C screening and diagnosis in patients born between 1945 and 1965 in a safety-net primary care clinic.

Individuals born between 1945-1965 represent 81% of all persons chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the USA and are largely unaware of their positive status. The baseline HCV screening rate in this population in an academic internal medicine clinic at a US hospital was less than 3.0%.