New Treatments Have Changed the Game: Hepatitis C Treatment in Primary Care

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
Shelley N FacenteColleen S Lynch

Abstract

In the pre-direct-acting antiviral era, hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments were complex and largely managed by hepatologists, gastroenterologists, and infectious disease physicians. As direct-acting antivirals have driven up demand for treatment, the relative scarcity of these specialists has created a bottleneck effect, resulting in only a fraction of HCV-infected individuals offered treatment. The San Francisco Health Network is a safety net system of care. Its intervention was designed to be sustainable and scalable; with minimal time commitments for training providers, primary care-based HCV treatment increased 3-fold in a period of just over 3 years.

Citations

Nov 2, 2019·Australian Health Review : a Publication of the Australian Hospital Association·Davoud PourmarziGerard FitzGerald
Sep 13, 2020·Journal of General Internal Medicine·Delia MotavalliAngela R Bazzi
Jun 10, 2020·JGH Open : an Open Access Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology·Micah Grubert Van IderstineGerald Y Minuk
Mar 27, 2021·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·Shelley N FacenteMeghan D Morris
Sep 30, 2021·Journal of Viral Hepatitis·Jacey NishiguchiDavid E Smith

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