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Prioritization of HCV treatment in the direct-acting antiviral era: An economic evaluation by Martin, Natasha K, Vickerman, Peter, Dore, Gregory J, Grebely, Jason, Miners, Alec, Cairns, John, Foster, Graham R, Hutchinson, Sharon J, Goldberg, David J, Martin, Thomas C.S, Ramsay, Mary, Hickman, Matthew

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Toward a more complete understanding of the association between a hepatitis C sustained viral response and cause‐specific outcomes by Innes, Hamish A., McDonald, Scott A., Dillon, John F., Allen, Sam, Hayes, Peter C., Goldberg, David, Mills, Peter R., Barclay, Stephen T., Wilks, David, Valerio, Heather, Fox, Ray, Bhattacharyya, Diptendu, Kennedy, Nicholas, Morris, Judith, Fraser, Andrew, Stanley, Adrian J., Bramley, Peter, Hutchinson, Sharon J.

“…Sustained viral response (SVR) is the optimal outcome of hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy, yet more detailed data are required to confirm its clinical value…”
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Rapid decline in HCV incidence among people who inject drugs associated with national scale-up in coverage of a combination of harm reduction interventions by Palmateer, Norah E, Taylor, Avril, Goldberg, David J, Munro, Alison, Aitken, Celia, Shepherd, Samantha J, McAllister, Georgina, Gunson, Rory, Hutchinson, Sharon J

“…Government policy has precipitated recent changes in the provision of harm reduction interventions - injecting equipment provision (IEP) and opiate…”
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Mortality in hepatitis C patients who achieve a sustained viral response compared to the general population by Innes, Hamish, McDonald, Scott, Hayes, Peter, Dillon, John F, Allen, Sam, Goldberg, David, Mills, Peter R, Barclay, Stephen T, Wilks, David, Valerio, Heather, Fox, Ray, Bhattacharyya, Diptendu, Kennedy, Nicholas, Morris, Judith, Fraser, Andrew, Stanley, Adrian, Bramley, Peter, Hutchinson, Sharon J

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Laying the foundations for hepatitis C elimination: evaluating the development and contribution of community care pathways to diagnostic efforts by Robinson, Emma, Byrne, Christopher J, Carberry, James, Radley, Andrew, Beer, Lewis J, Inglis, Sarah K, Tait, Jan, Macpherson, Iain, Goldberg, David, Hutchinson, Sharon J, Hickman, Matthew, Dillon, John F

“…Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a public health threat which contributes substantially to the global burden of liver disease. There is much debate about effective…”
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The Hep-CORE policy score: A European hepatitis C national policy implementation ranking based on patient organization data by Palayew, Adam, Stumo, Samya R, Cooke, Graham S, Hutchinson, Sharon J, Jauffret-Roustide, Marie, Maticic, Mojca, Harris, Magdalena, Metwally, Ammal M, Razavi, Homie, Lazarus, Jeffrey V

“…New hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments spurred the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 to adopt a strategy to eliminate HCV as a public health threat by…”
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Drugs-Related Death Soon after Hospital-Discharge among Drug Treatment Clients in Scotland: Record Linkage, Validation, and Investigation of Risk-Factors by White, Simon R, Bird, Sheila M, Merrall, Elizabeth L C, Hutchinson, Sharon J

“…We validate that the 28 days after hospital-discharge are high-risk for drugs-related death (DRD) among drug users in Scotland and investigate key risk-factors…”
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Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA in dried blood spots by Bennett, Susan, Gunson, Rory N, McAllister, Georgina E, Hutchinson, Sharon J, Goldberg, David J, Cameron, Sheila O, Carman, William F

“…Abstract Background An estimated 130–170 million people worldwide are chronically infected with HCV. In Europe the highest prevalence of HCV infections is in…”
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Modeling the current and future disease burden of hepatitis C among injection drug users in Scotland by HUTCHINSON, Sharon J, BIRD, Sheila M, GOLDBERG, David J

“…Quantitative estimates of the current and future burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) disease are required to plan a public health response to the HCV epidemic…”
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Competing Risk Bias in Prognostic Models Predicting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Occurrence: Impact on Clinical Decision-making by Innes, Hamish, Johnson, Philip, McDonald, Scott A., Hamill, Victoria, Yeung, Alan, Dillon, John F., Hayes, Peter C., Went, April, Barclay, Stephen T., Fraser, Andrew, Bathgate, Andrew, Goldberg, David J., Hutchinson, Sharon J.

“…Existing models predicting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurrence do not account for competing risk events and, thus, may overestimate the probability of…”
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Combination Interventions to Prevent HCV Transmission Among People Who Inject Drugs: Modeling the Impact of Antiviral Treatment, Needle and Syringe Programs, and Opiate Substitution Therapy by Martin, Natasha K., Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Goldberg, David J., Vickerman, Peter

“…Background. Interventions such as opiate substitution therapy (OST) and high-coverage needle and syringe programs (HCNSP) cannot substantially reduce hepatitis…”
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The Central Scotland Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak: Risk Factors for the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Death among Hospitalized Patients by Dundas, Stephanie, Todd, W. T. Andrew, Stewart, Alastair I., Murdoch, Peter S., Chaudhuri, A. K. R., Hutchinson, Sharon J.

“…Little is known about risk factors for complications of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in adults. The 1996 outbreak in central Scotland involved the…”
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Are needle and syringe programmes associated with a reduction in HIV transmission among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis by ASPINALL, Esther J, NAMBIAR, Dhanya, GOLDBERG, David J, HICKMAN, Matthew, WEIR, Amanda, VAN VELZEN, Eva, PALMATEER, Norah, DOYLE, Joseph S, HELLARD, Margaret E, HUTCHINSON, Sharon J

“…Needle and syringe programmes (NSP) aim to reduce the risk of HIV by providing people who inject drugs (PWID) with sterile injecting equipment. A recent review…”
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The seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus infection among children and their mothers attending for dental care in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom by O’Leary, Maureen, Bagg, Jeremy, Welbury, Richard, Hutchinson, Sharon J, Hague, Rosie, Geary, Isabella, Roy, Kirsty M

“…Summary This paper describes a voluntary anonymous survey to investigate the seroprevalence of Hepatitis C (HCV) in children in Glasgow, UK attending a Dental…”
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Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among People Who Are Actively Injecting Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Aspinall, Esther J., Corson, Stephen, Doyle, Joseph S., Grebely, Jason, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Dore, Gregory J., Goldberg, David J., Hellard, Margaret E.

“…Background. Although guidelines recommend that people who inject drugs (PWID) should not be excluded from hepatitis C (HCV) treatment, some services remain…”
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Hepatitis C virus treatment for prevention among people who inject drugs: Modeling treatment scale‐up in the age of direct‐acting antivirals by Martin, Natasha K., Vickerman, Peter, Grebely, Jason, Hellard, Margaret, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Lima, Viviane D., Foster, Graham R., Dillon, John F., Goldberg, David J., Dore, Gregory J., Hickman, Matthew

“…Substantial reductions in hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) cannot be achieved by harm reduction interventions such as…”
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The contribution of health risk behaviors to excess mortality in American adults with chronic hepatitis C: A population cohort‐study by Innes, Hamish, McAuley, Andrew, Alavi, Maryam, Valerio, Heather, Goldberg, David, Hutchinson, Sharon J.

“…In resource‐rich countries, chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection is associated with a sizeable excess mortality risk. The extent to which this is due to (1) the…”
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aMAP risk score predicts hepatocellular carcinoma development in patients with chronic hepatitis by Fan, Rong, Papatheodoridis, George, Sun, Jian, Innes, Hamish, Toyoda, Hidenori, Xie, Qing, Mo, Shuyuan, Sypsa, Vana, Guha, Indra Neil, Kumada, Takashi, Niu, Junqi, Dalekos, George, Yasuda, Satoshi, Barnes, Eleanor, Lian, Jianqi, Suri, Vithika, Idilman, Ramazan, Barclay, Stephen T., Dou, Xiaoguang, Berg, Thomas, Hayes, Peter C., Flaherty, John F., Zhou, Yuanping, Zhang, Zhengang, Buti, Maria, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Guo, Yabing, Calleja, Jose Luis, Lin, Lanjia, Zhao, Longfeng, Chen, Yongpeng, Janssen, Harry L.A., Zhu, Chaonan, Shi, Lei, Tang, Xiaoping, Gaggar, Anuj, Wei, Lai, Jia, Jidong, Irving, William L., Johnson, Philip J., Lampertico, Pietro, Hou, Jinlin

“…Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the leading cause of death in patients with chronic hepatitis. In this international collaboration, we sought to develop a…”
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Strategies for the treatment of Hepatitis C in an era of interferon-free therapies: what public health outcomes do we value most? by Innes, Hamish, Goldberg, David, Dillon, John, Hutchinson, Sharon J

“…The expense of new therapies for HCV infection may force health systems to prioritise the treatment of certain patient groups over others. Our objective was to…”
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Suicide in people prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011-2020: A national retrospective cohort study by Fraser, Rosalyn, Yeung, Alan, Glancy, Megan, Hickman, Matthew, Jones, Hayley E, Priyadarshi, Saket, Horsburgh, Kirsten, Hutchinson, Sharon J, McAuley, Andrew

“…Opioid dependence is associated with an increased risk of suicide. Drug-related mortality among people with opioid dependence in Scotland has more than tripled…”
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