NCT04470271

Re-linkage to Care of Patients With Hepatitis C

Effectiveness of Implementing a Strategy to Re-linkage to Care of Patients With Hepatitis C Who Were Lost to Follow-up

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Austral University, Argentina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) who were lost of follow up and relinkage them to hepatitis C care

Detailed description

The investigators will review electronic medical charts to identify patients with HCV diagnosis. Next, investigators will evaluate if these patients are routinely followed by liver specialists at the Institution. Those patients who were lost of follow up will be reached to evaluate their disease and eventually offer them to restart HCV care.

Conditions

• Viral Hepatitis C

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patients with hepatitis C lost follow up	Patients with chronic HCV who were lost of follow up will be contacted by phone or email. At least 3 phone calls will be made on three different days. In case the patient is not contacted it will be considered lost of follow-up

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2020-07-14
• Last updated: 2020-07-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Argentina