Multicountry burden of chronic hepatitis C viral infection among those aware of their diagnosis: A patient survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  DiBonaventura, Marco DaCosta ^a   Yuan, Yong ^b   Lescrauwaet, Benedicte ^c   L'Italien, Gilbert ^b,d   Liu, Gordon G ^e   Kamae, Isao ^f   Mauskopf, Josephine A ^g  

^a KANTAR HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^c Xintera Consulting ^*  (Belgium)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS LOAD;

COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFICIENCY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84906353355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086070     Document Type: Article

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