Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Quantifying hepatitis C transmission risk using a new weighted scoring system for the Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire (BBV-TRAQ): Applications for community-based HCV surveillance, education and prevention | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Review Open Access Quantifying hepatitis C transmission risk using a new weighted scoring system for the Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire BBV-TRAQ Applications for community-based HCV surveillance education and prevention Mark A Stoové1 Craig L Fry 2 and Nicholas Lintzeris3 Address Research Fellow Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health 85 Commercial Road Melbourne Victoria 3004 Australia 2Senior Research Fellow Department of Health Science Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University PO Box 527 Frankston Victoria 3199 Australia and 3Senior Staff Specialist Drug Health Services Sydney South West Area Health Service Page Building 5 Missenden Road Camperdown NSW 2050 Australia Email Mark A Stoové - stoove@ Craig L Fry - Nicholas Lintzeris - Corresponding author Published 23 April 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 12 doi 1477-7517-5-12 Received 13 June 2007 Accepted 23 April 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 12 2008 Stoové et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The hepatitis C virus HCV is a major cause of drug-related morbidity and mortality with incidence data implicating a wide range of HCV transmission risk practices. The Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire BBV-TRAQ is a content valid instrument that comprehensively assesses HCV risk practices. This study examines the properties of a new weighted BBV-TRAQ designed to quantify HCV transmission risk among injecting .