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The Effect of Shorter Treatment Regimens for Hepatitis C on Population Health and Under Fixed Budgets.

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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.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Open forum infectious diseases
Volume
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5
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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ofx267
URL
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https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofx267
DOI
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10.1093/ofid/ofx267
Short Title
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Open Forum Infect Dis
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