Characteristics of a hepatitis C patient cohort at a specialized tertiary care facility: Identifying criteria to improve the allocation of public health resources

OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to analyze, in a population treated for hepatitis C infection at a tertiary care treatment unit, the prevalence of comorbidities and extrahepatic manifestations, the range and degree of the clinical complexity and the associations between advanced liver disease and clin...

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Main Authors: Maria Laura Mariano de Matos, Rosário Quiroga Ferrufino, Ana Catharina de Seixas Santos Nastri, Fatuma Catherine Atieno Odongo, Aléia Faustina Campos, André Machado Luiz, Gaspar Lisboa-Neto, Steven S. Witkin, Maria Cássia Mendes-Correa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier España 2019-10-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322019000100291&tlng=en