Khalid Mazin, Dahal Sumit, Gayam Vijay, Mandal Amrendra, Hossain Muhammad R, Mukhtar Osama, Khalid Mowyad, Garlapati Pavani, Mansour Mohammed
Department of Medicine, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Department of Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Gastroenterology Res. 2018 Feb;11(1):31-35. doi: 10.14740/gr963w. Epub 2018 Feb 23.
Despite recent advances in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) treatment, only a small proportion of patients are connected with care and receive treatment. Internal medicine (IM) residents spend nearly one-third of their training in primary care settings and play a crucial role in diagnosing and counseling patients as well as linking patients with care and following up.
IM residents in a community hospital completed an anonymous questionnaire regarding their knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with CHC treatment and its challenges.
Descriptive analysis of the survey showed that there is a substantial gap in knowledge regarding the newer treatment of CHC between IM residents' perceptions of patient awareness and IM residents.
Updated education regarding CHC that is geared towards medical residents and focused on new modalities of treatment can narrow the gap and lead to considerable increases in the rates of diagnosis and treatment and decreases in morbidity and mortality.
尽管慢性丙型肝炎（CHC）治疗最近取得了进展，但只有一小部分患者能够获得治疗并接受护理。内科（IM）住院医师在初级保健机构接受培训的时间近三分之一，在诊断和咨询患者以及将患者与护理联系起来并进行随访方面发挥着关键作用。
一家社区医院的内科住院医师完成了一份关于他们对CHC治疗及其挑战的知识、态度和实践的匿名调查问卷。
对调查的描述性分析表明，在内科住院医师对患者认知的看法与内科住院医师之间，关于CHC新治疗方法的知识存在很大差距。
针对住院医师的关于CHC的最新教育，专注于新的治疗方式，可以缩小差距，并导致诊断和治疗率大幅提高，发病率和死亡率降低。
