Direct patient-physician communication via a hepatitis C hotline facilitates treatment initiation in patients with poor adherence.

CONCLUSION: The implementation of a physician-operated phone hotline for patients with HCV infection facilitated treatment initiation in an HCV population with poor adherence. Mainly due to losses to follow-up, the SVR rate remained suboptimal with 70%. PMID: 33351152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33351152?dopt=Abstract

Source: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift - December 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steininger L, Chromy D, Bauer D, Simbrunner B, Binter T, Schwabl P, Schmidbauer C, Trauner M, Gschwantler M, Mandorfer M, Reiberger T Tags: Wien Klin Wochenschr Source Type: research

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