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CAN HEPATITIS C TREATMENT BE SAFELY DELAYED?: EVIDENCE FROM THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
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Reported by Jules Levin
EASL 2015 April 22-26 Vienna Austria
Jeff McCombs1, Ivy Tonnu-Mihara2, Tara Matsuda1, Justin McGinnis1 and Stephen Fox3
1University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy
2Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Long Beach CA
3University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
-At 128 VA reporting facilities, which encompass data from all VA care sites
- Automatically identifies patients who have a diagnosis code for hepatitis C in the inpatient file, outpatient visit file or problem list or who have a positive result for hepatitis C tests.
-Prepares a list for each local VA station of patients who may have hepatitis C infection (so-called "pending" patients).
-A staff member at each station must confirm or reject HCV infection for each pending patient
-Local stations may delete patients whom they know to have been included in the registry erroneously.
-Once confirmed at local CCR, all electronically available historical data on the patient is transmitted from that facility to the national database.
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