Chronic HBV Carrier’s acceptance of regular survei

Authors: Qing Fang Youhua Hao Lei Li Zhenhua Zhang Junzhong Wang Mingfa Chen Jian Kang Dongliang Yang

Publish Date: 2013/04/17

Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 288-292

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Abstract

Longterm compliance with regular surveillance is important for the prevention and timely management of chronic hepatitis B CHB However there are no researches focusing on the compliance of hepatitis B virus infected patients in regular surveillance so far The purpose of our study was to investigate the outpatient compliance with longterm regular surveillance in China Data of 3257 CHB outpatients was pooled and analyzed to assess the outpatient’s compliance with the longterm regular surveillance plan In all outpatients the nonfollowup and the followup group accounted for 732 and 268 respectively Among the followup outpatient’s only 489 received ongoingfollowup and 511 were finally lost to followup the median length of visiting duration was 25 months and the predictive 1 2 3 4 and 5year ongoing followup rate was 727 525 424 338 and 263 respectively In conclusion our survey proved that the regular longterm surveillance on Chinese chronic HBV carrier is difficult to be fully implemented A large proportion of outpatients do not receive routine followup and are at risk of treatment delay due to various social reasonsThis project was supported by grants from the National Mega Research Program of China No 2008ZX10002011 the National Key Basic Research Program of China No 2005CB 522901 2007CB512804 2009CB522500 the National Natural Science Foundation of China No 30571646 and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft TRR60 to Dongliang YANG

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