The Effect of Shorter Treatment Regimens for Hepatitis C on Population Health and Under Fixed Budgets.
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| Abstract |    :  
                  Direct acting antiviral hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapies are highly effective but costly. Wider adoption of an 8-week ledipasvir/sofosbuvir treatment regimen could result in significant savings, but may be less efficacious compared with a 12-week regimen. We evaluated outcomes under a constrained budget and cost-effectiveness of 8 vs 12 weeks of therapy in treatment-naïve, noncirrhotic, genotype 1 HCV-infected black and nonblack individuals and considered scenarios of IL28B and NS5A resistance testing to determine treatment duration in sensitivity analyses.  | 
        
| Year of Publication |    :  
                  2018 
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| Journal |    :  
                  Open forum infectious diseases 
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| Volume |    :  
                  5 
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| Issue |    :  
                  1 
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| Number of Pages |    :  
                  ofx267 
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| URL |    :  
                  https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofx267 
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| DOI |    :  
                  10.1093/ofid/ofx267 
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| Short Title |    :  
                  Open Forum Infect Dis 
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