Abstract
Hepatitis B and hepatitis C may be transmitted form patients to health care workers and from health care workers to patients. To reduce the risk, all obstetrician-gynecologists who provide clinical care should receive hepatitis B virus vaccine. Obstetrician-gynecologists who are hepatitis B surface antigen positive and e antigen positive should not perform exposure prone procedures until they have sought counsel from an expert review panel. Because the risk of hepatitis C virus transmission is lower than that of hepatitis B virus transmission, routine testing of health care workers is not recommended, and hepatitis C virus-positive health care workers are not required to restrict professional activities.
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