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ArticleJournal of hepatology2015

Excluding people who use drugs or alcohol from access to hepatitis C treatments – Is this fair, given the available data?

Jason Grebely, Bridget Haire, Lynn E Taylor, Paul Macneill, Alain H Litwin, Tracy Swan, Jude Byrne, Jules Levin, Philip Bruggmann, Gregory J Dore and 1 more

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Article in Journal of hepatology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Jason GrebelyThe Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: jgrebely@kirby.unsw.edu.au.
Bridget HaireThe Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia.
Lynn E TaylorDivision of Infectious Diseases, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Paul MacneillCentre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Alain H LitwinDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States.
Tracy SwanTreatment Action Group, New York, NY, United States.
Jude ByrneInternational Network of People Who Use Drugs, Canberra, Australia; Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League, Canberra, Australia.
Jules LevinNational AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, New York, NY, United States.
Philip BruggmannArud Centres for Addiction Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland.
Gregory J DoreThe Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia.
International Network for Hepatitis in Substance Users
Treatment Action Group · USAddiction Switzerland · CHAlcohol and Drug Foundation · AUBrown University · USMontefiore Medical Center · USUniversity of Sydney · AU

Funding

Translational ScienceP30AI042853 · NIAID · MIRIAM HOSPITAL · PI CURT G BECKWITH · 1998 to 2026
$51.7M
Intensive Models of HCV Care for Injection Drug UsersR01DA034086 · NIDA · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI LITWIN, ALAIN HARRIS · 2012 to 2016
$3.7M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI042853NIAID NIH HHS P30AI042853NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA034086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Patient SelectionAlcoholicsAntiviral AgentsDrug UsersHealth Services AccessibilityHepatitis CHumansAntiviral AgentsAdherenceDrug usersHCVIFN-freeInjectingInjectionPWID

Identifiers

PMID26254264
PMCPMC6132058
OpenAlexW1858796636

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.