Cost-effectiveness of boceprevir or telaprevir for untreated patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 850-860

  Cammà, Calogero ^a,d   Petta, Salvatore ^a   Enea, Marco ^a   Bruno, Raffaele ^b   Bronte, Fabrizio ^a   Capursi, Vincenza ^a   Cicchetti, Americo ^c   Colombo, Giorgio L ^b   Di Marco, Vito ^a   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^c   Craxì, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d School of Pharmacy ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOCEPREVIR; INTERLEUKIN 28B; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN; TELAPREVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MALE; METAVIR F2 LIVER FIBROSIS SCORE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84865560854     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25734     Document Type: Article

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