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A systematic review of community based hepatitis C treatment

2016; BioMed Central; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12879-016-1548-5

1471-2334

Amanda Wade, Vanessa Veronese, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle,

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment uptake globally is low. A barrier to treatment is the necessity to attend specialists, usually in a tertiary hospital. We investigate the literature to assess the effect of providing HCV treatment in the community on treatment uptake and cure.