Hepatitis

NEJM: PCPs treat hepatitis C as effectively as specialists through new delivery model

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 20th, 2011

2011 JUN 20 -- Albuquerque, NM - Under a completely new way of providing health care, primary care clinicians in remote villages, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods who were trained to treat patients with hepatitis C achieved excellent results identical to those of specialists at a university medical center.

These findings, from an evaluation of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine and will appear in the June 9 print edition. They demonstrate that primary care providers anywhere can be trained via videoconferencing technology to manage complex chronic conditions...

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