nursing education hepatic cirrhotics .

Objectives: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) has excellent cure rates and minimal side effects. Despite the high burden of disease, strategies to ultimately eradicate HCV are being developed. However, the delivery of care in regional settings is challenging and the efficacy of decentralised models of care is incompletely defined. Methods: A prospective cohort study of patients whose treatment was initiated or supervised by Cairns Hospital, a tertiary hospital which provides services to a culturally diverse population across a 380,748 km2 area in regional Australia...

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Patient education is critical in ensuring patient compliance and good health outcomes. Fellows must be able to effectively communicate with their patients, delivering enough information for the patient to understand their medical problem and maximize patient compliance. We created an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) with 4 liver disease cases to assess fellows' knowledge and ability to inform standardized patients (SPs) about their clinical condition...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the key points of nursing HBeAg negative cirrhotic patients with nucleot(s) ide analogues antiviral therapy. METHOD: Patients enrolled into this study were divided into antiviral group (58 cases) and control group (53 cases). Patients from control group only received the supportive and symptomatic treatment and those from antiviral group received the additional nucleot (s) ide analogues treatment. All patients were observed during hospitalization and were followed up in clinic...