Interactive Tools
HCV Management in the Setting of Advanced Liver Disease
an Interactive Decision Support Tool
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This tool is designed to guide healthcare providers through the diagnosis and management of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the setting of advanced liver disease. This is achieved by 1) providing expert guidance on evaluating and monitoring patients with HCV infection and advanced liver disease, 2) providing clinicians with the latest data regarding the risks and outcomes related to initiating HCV therapy according to management strategies and key patient and viral characteristics, and 3) highlighting eligibility for treatment or other management strategies such as liver transplantation.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 143 KB
| Date posted: 10/24/2008
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HBV Screening, Evaluation, and Monitoring
an Interactive Decision Support Tool
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This tool guides HBV treaters through screening and baseline factors involved in making management decisions for their HBV infected patients and emphasizes how information collected may affect management decisions. The tool highlights key information from the AASLD guidelines, clinical data, and other important sources. Patient-specific treatment plans should be based on consultation with appropriate healthcare professionals.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 132 KB
| Date posted: 9/17/2008
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Key Questions for Patients Facing HCV Retreatment
an Interactive Decision Support Tool
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Trying to find the optimal management strategies for your hepatitis C patients facing retreatment?
In just minutes, this tool highlights the key factors associated with treatment nonresponse and enables you to evaluate your patient’s previous course of therapy to better understand why it was not successful. This information can be used when considering the optimal strategy for retreatment. You can also download a worksheet questionnaire to use as an interviewing tool when speaking with your patient about his/her previous treatment course.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 394 KB
| Date posted: 9/12/2008
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HCV Drug Dose and Response
an Interactive Decision Support Tool
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Interested in understanding more about HCV treatment dosing strategies with peginterferon and ribavirin and the factors involved in determining the best strategy for your patient?
This tool enables you to select specific patient characteristics that have been associated with treatment response in controlled studies and then view a convenient graphical summary of the key data from those studies. You can also print the data and/or download slides. Practical calculators that can be used to understand HCV drug dosing and the impact on treatment response are also included.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 397 KB
| Date posted: 8/5/2008
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HBV DNA Monitoring for Oral Agents
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This interactive tool tracks a patient’s progress on therapy by calculating and graphically representing changes in HBV DNA over time. The tool also generates key patient evaluation dates and interprets the patient progress over time by highlighting response patterns and tailoring responses according to treatment history. The tool has the capability to save patient data only on the end-user’s computer, making it available for editing upon subsequent uses.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 615 KB
| Date posted: 11/2/2007
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HCV Treatment Guidelines Algorithm
An Interactive Decision Support Tool
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This tool guides HCV treaters through baseline factors involved in making treatment decisions and emphasizes how responses to therapy affect on-treatment management decisions. The tool is based on current published treatment guidelines, and is enhanced with expert data analysis by Emmet B. Keeffe, MD, MACP, who highlights for users the new and evolving data that may weigh in on treatment decisions for HCV-infected patients.
Format: HTML
| Date posted: 10/13/2006
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HCV RNA Monitoring
An Interactive Decision Support Tool
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This interactive tool tracks a patient’s progress on therapy by calculating and graphically representing changes in HCV RNA over time. The tool also generates key patient evaluation dates and interprets the patient progress by providing definitions for endpoints of response and by reporting when a patient has reached these treatment goals. The tool has the capability to save patient data on the user’s own computer, making it available for editing upon subsequent uses.
Format: Adobe Flash (.swf)
| File size: 492 KB
| Date posted: 10/13/2006
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