Assessing Hepatitis C Burden and Treatment Effectiveness through the British Columbia Hepatitis Testers Cohort (BC-HTC): Design and Characteristics of Linked and Unlinked Participants.

BACKGROUND:The British Columbia (BC) Hepatitis Testers Cohort (BC-HTC) was established to assess and monitor hepatitis C (HCV) epidemiology, cost of illness and treatment effectiveness in BC, Canada. In this paper, we describe the cohort construction, data linkage process, linkage yields, and compar...

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Main Authors: Naveed Zafar Janjua, Margot Kuo, Mei Chong, Amanda Yu, Maria Alvarez, Darrel Cook, Rosemary Armour, Ciaran Aiken, Karen Li, Seyed Ali Mussavi Rizi, Ryan Woods, David Godfrey, Jason Wong, Mark Gilbert, Mark W Tyndall, Mel Krajden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4783072?pdf=render