Barriers to initiation of hepatitis C virus therapy in Germany: A retrospective, case-controlled study

• Peter Buggisch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: buggisch@ifi-medizin.de

  Affiliation ifi-Institute for Interdisciplinary Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-3960

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• Hans Heiken,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Private Practice, Hanover, Germany

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• Stefan Mauss,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for HIV and Hepatogastroenterology, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Bernd Weber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Praxiszentrum Friedrichsplatz / Competence Center Addiction, Kassel, Germany

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• Maria-Christina Jung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liver Centre, Munich, Germany

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• Herbert Görne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MediZentrum Hamburg, Praxis für Suchtmedizin, Hamburg, Germany

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• Renate Heyne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leberzentrum am Checkpoint, Berlin, Germany

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• Holger Hinrichsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kiel, Germany

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• Dennis Hidde,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Bettina König,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Ana Gabriela Pires dos Santos,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Claus Niederau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Katholisches Klinikum Oberhausen, St. Josef-Hospital, Klinik für Innere Medizin, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Oberhausen, Germany

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• Thomas Berg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

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