Comprehensive Resources

This is a chapter of the Enhancing Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment toolkit which provides resources and best practices to help providers to identify and successfully treat hepatitis C infection.

• Patient-focused Hepatitis C Resources (Source: Massachusetts Department of Public Health)
• HIV/HCV Co-infection: An AETC National Curriculum (Source: AIDS Education and Training Center Program, National Coordinating Resource Center)
  This curriculum provides the user with a roadmap of how to develop the skills needed to treat HCV, including which websites to use for self-education and point-of-care clinical references.  It is a good starting point, providing an overview of HCV treatment and a guide to the best web-based HCV resources.
• Hepatitis C Online (Source: University of Washington, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  This is a self-study resource on HCV, including the natural history, pathogenesis and treatment of HCV, including an in-depth review of HCV medications.  Continuing education credits are available, and the site includes many helpful calculators, illustrations and tables.
• HCVGuidelines.org (Source: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Infectious Diseases Society of America)
  This is the comprehensive, definitive, point-of-care reference for making treatment decisions.  It is updated on a continual basis and is organized in an easy-to-use format with clear, evidence-based recommendations and supporting information from clinical trials to help users make the best clinical decisions for their patients.
  
  Comprehensive guidelines, including:
  • Testing, Evaluation, and Monitoring of Hepatitis C
  • Initial Treatment of HCV Infection
  • Retreatment of Persons in Whom Prior Therapy Has Failed
  • Management of Unique & Key Populations
• HealthHCV HCV 20X20 Resource Guide for Increasing Screening and Linkage to Care in Your Organization (Source: HealthHCV)
  This resource focuses on establishing effective programs for HCV outreach, testing, engagement in care and care navigation, with multiple links to evidence-based resources available to clinics seeking to create multidisciplinary HCV programs.