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Patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment in primary care: successful chronic hepatitis C care in a real world setting.
BMC infectious diseases - 8 Jan 2013
Seidenberg André, Rosemann Thomas, Senn Oliver
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Injection drug users (IDUs) represent a significant proportion of patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The low treatment uptake among these patients results in a low treatment effectiveness and a limited public health impact. We hypothesised that a general practitioner (GP) providing an opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) for addicted patients can achieve CHC treatment and sustained virological...
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