What do patients consider when making decisions about treatment for hepatitis C?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1387-1391

  Fraenkel, Liana ^a,b   McGraw, Sarah ^c   Wongcharatrawee, Suchat ^a,b,d   Garcia Tsao, Guadalupe ^a,b,d  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Hepatitis C; Pegylated interferon; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROGNOSIS; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 29244457548     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.05.029     Document Type: Article

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