Mustafa K Çelen, Buket Ertürk Şengel, Şafak Kaya, Neşe Demirtürk, Alpay Azap, Hüsnü Pullukçu, Esma Eroğlu, Figen Yıldırım, Hüseyin Ş Barut, Esra Zerdali, Ayşe Sağmak Tartar, Ayşe Ö Mete, Ahmet M Şahin, Bedia Mutay Suntur, Nagehan D Sarı, Emel Yılmaz, Aslıhan Candevir, Funda Şimşek, Dilara İnan, Sıla Akhan, Ali Asan, Özgür Günal, Onur Ural, Mehmet Parlak, Mehmet Çabalak, Selçuk Nazik, Kenan Hızel, Sami Kınıklı, Zehra Beştepe Dursun, Ayşe Batırel, Çiğdem Mermutluoğlu
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this national, multicenter, cross-sectional, retrospective chart review study was to determine the proportion of patients in Turkey who received hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment after receiving positive anti-HCV results during HCV screening. METHODOLOGY: Data related to patients' demographics, laboratory results, time interval from obtaining a positive anti-HCV result to treatment initiation, specialty of the physician requesting anti-HCV screening, and type of hospital were analyzed...
March 31, 2024: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries