PMID- 20635285
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101102
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1545-0848 (Electronic)
IS  - 1055-0887 (Print)
IS  - 1055-0887 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 3
DP  - 2010 Jul
TI  - Hepatitis C treatment eligibility and comorbid medical illness in methadone 
      maintenance (MMT) and non-MMT patients: a case-control study.
PG  - 359-69
LID - 10.1080/10550887.2010.489449 [doi]
AB  - Comorbid medical illness is common in patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) 
      infection and in methadone treatment (MMT) patients, yet little is known about 
      the impact of medical illness on HCV treatment eligibility. Medical illness and 
      HCV treatment eligibility were compared in a case-control study of 80 MMT 
      patients entering an HCV treatment trial and 80 matched non-MMT patients entering 
      HCV treatment in a gastroenterology clinic. 91% of MMT and 85% of non-MMT 
      patients had chronic medical conditions. Despite similar medical severity 
      ratings, a significantly higher proportion (77%) of non-MMT patients were 
      eligible for HCV treatment than were MMT patients (56%) (p<.01). Specific 
      comorbid medical and psychiatric illness led to ineligibility in only 18% of MMT 
      and 16% of non-MMT patients. However, failure to complete the medical evaluation 
      process was significantly (p<.001) more likely to cause ineligibility among MMT 
      patients (19%) than non-MMT patients (0%).
FAU - Batki, Steven L
AU  - Batki SL
AD  - San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 
      94121, USA. steven.batki@ucsf.edu
FAU - Canfield, Kelly M
AU  - Canfield KM
FAU - Smyth, Emily
AU  - Smyth E
FAU - Ploutz-Snyder, Robert
AU  - Ploutz-Snyder R
FAU - Levine, Robert A
AU  - Levine RA
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 DA016764/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DA016764-06/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DA 016764/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PL  - England
TA  - J Addict Dis
JT  - Journal of addictive diseases
JID - 9107051
RN  - 0 (Narcotics)
RN  - UC6VBE7V1Z (Methadone)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Comorbidity
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Eligibility Determination
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Services Accessibility/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Health Status Indicators
MH  - Hepatitis C, Chronic/*epidemiology/*rehabilitation
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Disorders/epidemiology/rehabilitation
MH  - Methadone/*therapeutic use
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Narcotics/*therapeutic use
MH  - Opioid-Related Disorders/*epidemiology/*rehabilitation
MH  - *Patient Selection
MH  - Substance Abuse, Intravenous/*epidemiology/*rehabilitation
PMC - PMC4651622
MID - NIHMS205315
COIS- Disclosure Statement: The authors have no financial or personal conflicts of 
      interest in relation to this publication.
EDAT- 2010/07/17 06:00
MHDA- 2010/11/03 06:00
PMCR- 2015/11/18
CRDT- 2010/07/17 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/11/03 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/11/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 924377213 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/10550887.2010.489449 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Addict Dis. 2010 Jul;29(3):359-69. doi: 10.1080/10550887.2010.489449.