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Attitudes of Health Professionals toward Caring for People with Hepatitis C

With an estimated 170 million people worldwide infected with hepatitis C, those with chronic disease are expected to experience significant morbidity and mortality. As a result, many health professionals likely will care for these patients at some point in their medical careers. Despite this situation, there are scant data on the attitudes of health professionals toward caring for individuals living with hepatitis C. To help fill this gap, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia conducted a cross-sectional survey to explore the inter-relationship among health prpfessionals' hepatitis C knowledge and attitudes towards treating people with hepatitis C and their self-reported clinical behavior.

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