Rationale and design of a randomized pragmatic trial of patient-centered models of hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs: The HERO study

The objectives of this study are: 1) to determine whether either of two patient-centered treatment models – patient navigation (PN) or modified directly observed therapy (mDOT) – results in more forward movement along the HCV care cascade including treatment initiation, adherence, and SVR; 2) using quantitative and qualitative methods, to understand factors associated with lack of treatment uptake, poor adherence (

Source: Contemporary Clinical Trials - October 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Alain H. Litwin, John Jost, Katherine Wagner, Moonseong Heo, Alison Karasz, Judith Feinberg, Arthur Y. Kim, Paula J. Lum, Shruti H. Mehta, Lynn E. Taylor, Judith I. Tsui, Irene Pericot-Valverde, Kimberly Page, the HERO Study Group Source Type: research