Late presentation of chronic viral hepatitis for medical care: a consensus definition

Abstract Introduction We present two consensus definitions of advanced and late stage liver disease being used as epidemiological tools. These definitions can be applied to assess the morbidity caused by liver diseases in different health care systems. We focus is on hepatitis B and C virus infectio...

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Main Authors: Stefan Mauss, Stanislas Pol, Maria Buti, Erika Duffell, Charles Gore, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Hilje Logtenberg-van der Grient, Jens Lundgren, Antons Mozalevskis, Dorthe Raben, Eberhard Schatz, Stefan Wiktor, Jürgen K. Rockstroh, on behalf of the European consensus working group on late presentation for Viral Hepatitis Care
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0856-y