The silent dragon—hepatitis C - Home Study Program

AORN Journal, June, 2003 by Beverly Walker, Linda Howard

NOTES

(1.) K L Londsay, J Rosenberg, "Hepatitis C," Western Journal of Medicine 169 (December 1998) 372.

(2.) "Wake up America--Hepatitis C," United States Hepatitis Alliance (May, 3 1999) 2.

(3.) M L Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," unpublished paper, 1999, 1.

(4.) "Four million people in the United States are or have been infected with the hepatitis C virus," The Hepatitis Information Network, http://www.hepnet.com/hepc/news08 1899.html (accessed 14 April 2003).

(5.) "Invisible Epidemic--Deadly Needles," San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct 1998, sec A, 6.

(6.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 2.

(7.) V McInnis-Shaw, "Overview of HCV?" Hepatitis-Central, http:// hepatitis-central.com/hcv/hepatitis /hcvover.html (accessed 14 April 2003).

(8.) "Hepatitis C factsheet," American Liver Foundation, http: //64.227.163.135/cgi-bin/dbs /articles.cgi?db=articles&uid= default&ID=1063&view_records=1 (accessed 14 April 2003).

(9.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 1.

(10.) H J Worman, "Hepatitis C," Diseases of the Liver, http:// cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gi /hepC.html (accessed 14 April 2003.)

(11.) H G Klein, "Allogenic transfusion risks in the surgical patient," American Journal of Surgery 170 (December 1995) 225.

(12.) M Feldmann, L Friedman, M Sleisenger, Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (Philadelphia: Saunders, 2002) 1195-1202.

(13.) Ibid.

(14.) Ibid.

(15.) Ibid.

(16.) Ibid.

(17.) National Institutes of Health, "Management of hepatitis C," NIH Consensus Statement 15 (March 1997) 5, 24-26.

(18.) Ibid, 6

(19.) Ibid.

(20.) Ibid.

(21.) Ibid, 7

(22.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 2.

(23.) Ibid.

(24.) National Institutes of Health, "Management of hepatitis C," 3.

(25.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 2.

(26.) "Hepatitis C clears faster in kids," The Hepatitis Information Network, http://www.hepnet.com /hepC/news91699.html (accessed 14 April 2003).

(27.) Feldmann, Friedman, Sleisenger, Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 1195-1202.

(28.) "Hepatitis C--An epidemic for anyone," Epidemic.org, http:// www.epidemic.org/index2.html (accessed 14 April 2003).

(29.) National Institutes of Health, "Management of hepatitis C," 3.

(30.) J B McCormick, S P Fisher-Hoch, "Emerging diseases in the 21st century--Have we learned and will we anticipate?" Edwin C Yoder Lecture, Tacoma, Wash, 19 Nov 1999.

(31.) McInnis-Shaw, "Overview of HCV?"

(32.) National Institutes of Health, "Management of hepatitis C," 3.

(33.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 1.

(34.) McInnis-Shaw, "Overview of HCV?"

(35.) National Institutes of Health, "Management of hepatitis C," 5, 24-26.

(36.) McInnis-Shaw, "Overview of HCV?"

(37.) H Worman, "Common lab tests in liver disease," Diseases of the Liver, http://cpmcnet.columbia .edu/dept/gi/labtests.html (accessed 14 April 2003)

(38.) Feldmann, Friedman, Sleisenger, Sleisenger and Gordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 1310-1311.

(39.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 2.

(40.) Worman, "Common lab tests in liver disease."

(41.) Lyons, "Update on hepatitis C," 3.