Referral of intravenous drug users for antiviral treatment: effectiveness of hepatitis C case-finding programmes.
Cent Eur J Public Health
; 20(3): 223-5, 2012 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Hepatitis C infection (HCI) case-finding programmes aim to identify infected persons in a well-defined population. This study assessed the effectiveness of three HCI case-finding programmes for intravenous drug users by examining the rate of their referral to antiviral treatment.METHODS:
The Hepatology Outpatient Clinic of Szent László Hospital examines and treats all intravenous drug users who are found positive in HCI case-finding programmes in Budapest. The medical records of patients who visited the Hepatology Outpatient Clinic of Szent László Hospital between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2008 were screened and records indicating a history of drug abuse were selected. These records were matched against the databases of the hepatitis case-finding programmes and the records that appeared in both datasets were analyzed.RESULTS:
Of the 234 intravenous drug users identified as hepatitis C virus positive in the Budapest case-finding programmes, only 21 attended the Hepatology Outpatient Clinic of Szent László Hospital and only two started antiviral treatment, but their hepatitis C virus positive status had already been known at the time of screening.CONCLUSION:
In this study, not a single patient with drug abuse whose hepatitis C virus positive status was identified in one of the HCI case-finding programmes was referred for antiviral treatment.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Derivación y Consulta
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Aceptación de la Atención de Salud
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Abuso de Sustancias por Vía Intravenosa
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Hepatitis C
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cent Eur J Public Health
Asunto de la revista:
EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Hungria