Treatment Selection Choices Should Not Be Based on Benefits or Costs Alone: A Head-to-Head Randomized Controlled Trial of Antiviral Drugs for Hepatitis C.

Clinicians often face dilemmas with decisions related to formulary choices when two similar drugs are simultaneously available in the market. We studied the comparative safety, effectiveness, and treatment costs of the two first generation direct-acting antiviral agents (DAA), boceprevir and telapre...

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Main Authors: Perica Davitkov, Apoorva Krishna Chandar, Amy Hirsch, Anita Compan, Marina G Silveira, Donald D Anthony, Suzanne Smith, Clare Gideon, Robert A Bonomo, Yngve Falck-Ytter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5065164?pdf=render