Hepatitis C Disease Burden in the United States in the era of oral direct-acting antivirals.

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Published in Hepatology on June 01, 2016

Authors

Jagpreet Chhatwal1,2,3, Xiaojie Wang4,5, Turgay Ayer4, Mina Kabiri6, Raymond T Chung2,3, Chin Hur1,2,3, Julie M Donohue6, Mark S Roberts6, Fasiha Kanwal7,8

Author Affiliations

1: Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, Boston, MA.
2: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
3: Liver Center and Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
4: H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
5: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
6: Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
7: Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
8: Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA.

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