Hepatitis C Cure 'Difficult to Implement'

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International Conference on Viral Hepatitis (ICVH) 2017

Hepatitis C Cure 'Difficult to Implement'

Laird Harrison

October 11, 2017

CHICAGO — Although new treatments can effectively cure most cases of hepatitis C, outdated guidelines, too many treatment choices, and lack of insurance coverage can make standards of care difficult to implement, experts acknowledge.

"It may not always be clear what the standards of care are," said Nancy Reau, MD, from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, who is cochair of the conference. "And providers may not always be able to provide standard of care."

Standards can come from official guidelines, practice patterns, package inserts, or legal considerations, said Dr Reau, who teamed up with Wendy Spearman, MBChB, PhD, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, to provide an overview of the problems with standards here at the International Conference on Viral Hepatitis 2017.

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