The Effect of Shorter Treatment Regimens for Hepatitis C on Population Health and Under Fixed Budgets.
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| Abstract | :
Direct acting antiviral hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapies are highly effective but costly. Wider adoption of an 8-week ledipasvir/sofosbuvir treatment regimen could result in significant savings, but may be less efficacious compared with a 12-week regimen. We evaluated outcomes under a constrained budget and cost-effectiveness of 8 vs 12 weeks of therapy in treatment-naïve, noncirrhotic, genotype 1 HCV-infected black and nonblack individuals and considered scenarios of IL28B and NS5A resistance testing to determine treatment duration in sensitivity analyses. |
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2018
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| Journal | :
Open forum infectious diseases
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| Volume | :
5
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| Issue | :
1
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| Number of Pages | :
ofx267
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| URL | :
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofx267
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| DOI | :
10.1093/ofid/ofx267
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| Short Title | :
Open Forum Infect Dis
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