Assessing the rate of non-linkage to care and identifying barriers in individuals living with hepatitis B. Results of the LINK-B study.
Anna Feliu-PriusAna Barreira DíazAriadna RandoElena Vargas-AccarinoAdriana PalomJudit Vico-RomeroJuan-Carlos Ruiz-CoboMar Riveiro-BarcielaFrancisco Rodriguez-FríasRafael EstebanMaria ButiPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2023)
One in every three HBsAg-positive individuals in our setting was not currently under specialist care. Of particular note, half of them had never attended a specialist consultation, an essential step for evaluating the disease and starting therapy in some countries.