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Highlights From the Upcoming NAPVI Family Conference ProgramPosted on 6/26/2015 at 4:53 PM
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Dear Families,
We are just two weeks away from the NAPVI National Family Conference to be held in Chicago. It's not too late to register and join us! Come and meet www.FamilyConnect.org bloggers, authors, and web team for a special networking seminar for FamilyConnect members held on Friday afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm at the Chicago Marriott at Medical District/UIC Hotel. Come and give your feedback for the further development of FamilyConnect and learn how you can be involved!
Here are some of the other conference highlights:
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- Receive one-on-one coaching with adaptive technology experts
- Make college-bound scholarship connections
- Meet AFB's FamilyConnect web team
- Enjoy all-day childcare and adaptive sport activities for visually impaired children and their siblings
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Summer Blog Party: Hot Fun In the Summertime for Kids who Are Blind or Visually ImpairedPosted on 6/23/2015 at 2:37 PM
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We are kicking off the summer season with a roundup of items to help you make the most of activities, events, and just plain old ideas that can be fun. We are excited to be co-hosting a Summer Blog Party with WonderBaby. Bloggers, please join in by writing about your summer plans and sending us the links. We will share all the posts and links with families.
From FamilyConnect you can sign up with FamilyConnect to get alerts as cool activities and camps are added to the calendar.
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Are you planning any new activities or experiences for your blind child this summer? How are you preparing? Any advice to share with other parents? Let us know! FamilyConnect and WonderBaby.org are inviting bloggers to write about their summer plans. Just send us a link to your post and we'll share it!
Finding Fun Things to Do When You Are Visually ImpairedPosted on 6/23/2015 at 12:25 PM
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There are a couple of ways to find out fun things to do when you are visually impaired.
- Find local organizations or groups that organize events or activities. In my example, I found a running club organization called Achilles International. They organize races and events, and they pair volunteers with people with any disabilities to run or walk. There is probably a local organization that would have fun things to do according to your interest. And you can sign up for FamilyConnect to get email alerts every time a new activity is added to the calendar.
- Enjoying music. You can find music, games, videos or entertainment on devices that have built-in accessibility features for the visually impaired such as iPhone, or iPad.
- Playing games. An activity done by blind people is playing cards labeled with braille. Another game is chess. It is a good entertaining device.
- Going for a walk. Taking a walk is always good to promote health but also can release stress.
- Going to the gym. In my opinion, doing a regular exercise might also be considered as fun. It is important to do regular exercise. Being visually impaired often prevents people from getting regular exercise.
- Going to concerts. There is nothing more enjoyable to seeing your favorite band or artist performing live. It is one of the best times you can have if you are into that particular artist's music.
These are only a few examples that you can do for fun. However, being visually impaired should not prevent you from exploring new things. The activities one might perform are endless. You might find the next adventure interesting. So, you only need to try it. Let us know what new activities you're trying this summer in the comments.
In Honor of Father's Day, A Son's Thoughts About Parenthood and BlindnessPosted on 6/18/2015 at 3:52 PM
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With the Father's Day approaching, it is important to recognize the support and care of parents. I would like to share my experiences when growing up.
One of the things that my parents got right was promoting a sense of equality when growing up. Promoting equality for me means treating each child the same way and providing the same opportunities, rights, and responsibilities. I have an older brother but of course, all families are different — you might be a single child or have several siblings. My parents always encouraged us to do things the same way even though I am visually impaired.
Another good thing about my parents was how they encouraged us to do things. When people grow up they are shaped by the things they are told about themselves by their parents. I believe that only you can set the limits for what you want to accomplish. My parents did not prevent me from pursuing any of my goals. On the contrary, they provided support and encouraged me to do things such as training for a marathon, and applying for schools, scholarships, or jobs.
Some very negative comments might be "you cannot do that" or "how you can you do that if you are blind, you are wasting your time doing so," or "you can do this instead," etc. A few of these comments would be very disappointing for anybody. Perhaps, someone might be motivated to do something and with the suggestions and comments of someone else they will get discouraged and maybe drop the willingness and motivation to do something. Therefore, I believe it is important to encourage children to do what they want and support them emotionally, verbally, with whatever it is that they want to do.
Our parents always assigned us the same tasks. For instance, those tasks might be to get all children involved in a particular activity such as going to a store, taking care of a household task, or playing a game. Some activities I can mention are, for instance, going swimming or playing soccer. For example, when we were growing up my father always encouraged my brother and cousins to learn swimming or play soccer.
Parents as Role Models
Parents play an important role for the child's success in life. Children need to be treated equally and given the same opportunities as their sighted peers so that they can develop like everyone else. As a result, a child would be motivated to pursue things that they did not think they were capable of before. Whatever the case may be, parents of blind children or blind parents raising a child, there are so many alternative ways to do things. In fact, the impairment of the individual is just a facet of that person rather than the defining characteristic of that person.
The most important thing is having the support from someone. The support could be emotional, verbal, or financial. When people receive that kind of support they possibly will have a better life. There are so many things blind people can do. Moreover, there is no set limit to what someone can do regardless if the individual is blind or not.
Harnessing Adversity: A Chat with Erik Weihenmayer and Amy Van Dyken-RouenPosted on 6/12/2015 at 4:15 PM
by Scott Truax
We're delighted to host a guest post today from Buddy Levy, presenting his interview with Erik Weihenmayer and Amy Van Dyken-Rouen.
What do a blind outdoor adventurer and an asthmatic six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer have in common? Turns out, the same thing that all of us have in common in some form or other: adversity.
Everyone faces adversity—what matters is how they face it, according to Erik Weihenmayer and Amy Van Dyken-Rouen, who got together recently for a web-hangout interview ahead of this summer's No Barriers Summit, to be held in Park City, Utah July 9-12. Van Dyken-Rouen, a celebrated U.S. Olympic swimmer who was paralyzed in 2014 in an ATV accident, is the event's keynote speaker at the opening ceremonies, and Weihenmayer, a mountaineer and outdoor adventurer blind since the age of 13, will speak at the closing ceremonies. Their individual stories are remarkably different, yet each of them believes that personal adversity can be harnessed to effect positive change in your life. As Weihenmayer puts it, "With the right tool-kit, the right community of support, the right 'rope team,' you can become a kind of alchemist, and turn the lead in your life into gold."
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Van Dyken-Rouen agrees, even going so far as to say that her accident, which left her paralyzed from the waist down a year ago, "was an epiphany that has made me a better person. I'm much more empathetic. I don't take things as seriously as I used to, and I laugh a lot more. To be honest, I'm a lot happier than I was before the accident, because I know this life is so precious, and that it can end in just the blink of an eye. I've learned to love more deeply."
Van Dyken-Rouen, driven and determined, has attacked her rehabilitation with the same intensity she brought to the Olympic swimming pool in 1996 and 2000. After 2 1/2 months of rehab she stood on her own for the first time, and she recently took her first steps with the aid of an exoskeleton, a computerized assistive device that gets paralyzed people up and walking.
Weihenmayer has experienced his own epiphanies. In 2001, as he descended from the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, one of his guides congratulated him on his historic climb, then said something that Weihenmayer would never forget: "Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever do."
Weihenmayer had just become the first blind person to stand on the world's highest peak, and he went on to climb the rest of the fabled Seven Summits—the highest points on each continent. So, what was he supposed to do for an encore?
Erik Weihenmayer kayaking
The more Weihenmayer thought about his guide's words, the more he realized that his life's purpose wasn't just about personal accomplishment: He had an opportunity to help others. In 2004, Weihenmayer co-founded No Barriers, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping people with adversities overcome personal barriers, find inner purpose and maximize their contributions to the world.
"We all face obstacles in our lives," says Weihenmayer. "Mine happened to be blindness, but all people struggle with adversity. Yet I think there is something inside all of us, a kind of light. Sometimes—through injury, disease, tragedy, mental illness, loss or trauma—we get shoved into a dark place, and that light almost goes out. But that light inside us is really strong, and combined with a mindset of character, strength, and resilience—it can win out over the barriers we confront."
For Weihenmayer and Van Dyken-Rouen, teamwork, community, and goals are all vital elements in the process of living what they call No Barriers Lives. Van Dyken-Rouen says, "My idea of teamwork before my accident was getting three other girls together on a relay team and going for a gold medal; now it's getting a group of doctors and physical therapists together for my life! I could not do what I'm doing today in my recovery, and I wouldn't have the outlook I have without them, my husband, the whole amazing team—they are doing everything they can to help me succeed in my long term goal to one day walk under my own power."
Weihenmayer says that the No Barriers Summit is profound and deeply meaningful to him, and that no one leaves it unchanged. It's an opportunity to be around a community of people who are trying to live No Barriers lives. They may struggle and fail in the process, but they believe the message. "Whether you are in a wheelchair, or blind, whether you have any kind of challenge—which is honestly most people in the world—what unites us aren't our triumphs but our barriers. Our failures. Our inner strength is formed in the flames of adversity. We are all trying to figure out the tools we need, the skills we need, to discover the mindset we need to push forward, and to answer an important question of ourselves: Is there something inside us that we can tap into? I think there is," Weihenmayer says.
The four-day No Barriers Summit in Park City July 9-12 will bring together about 1,000 global participants and will feature innovative adaptive technologies, inspiring speakers and clinics for outdoor activities such as rock climbing, cycling, kayaking, rafting, sailing and fly-fishing, painting, and photography. All Summit participants are invited to the Canyons Resort Summer Concert Series for a free show, featuring the Grammy Award winning Blind Boys of Alabama, who take the Mountain Town Stage after 6pm the evening of Saturday July 11.
Summit presenters include NBC's Last Comic Standing winner comedian Josh Blue, who has cerebral palsy; innovator Henry Evans, a quadriplegic who is also mute, who pioneers adaptive robotic technology at Robots for Humanity; and Mick Ebeling, founder of Not Impossible Labs, who will demonstrate his latest inventions, including the Eye Writer, which enables paralyzed individuals to communicate and create art by using only the movement of their eyes.
Erik Weihenmayer and Amy Van Dyken-Rouen will be there, sharing their remarkable stories and also participating in many of the clinics, like rock climbing.
Says Van Dyken-Rouen, in closing out their conversation, "In life, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward if you succeed. So who knows, Erik, maybe I'll be on the rock wall, side by side with you. That would be so cool!"
To register for the No Barriers Summit visit nobarrierssummit.org or contact the No Barriers office at 970.484.3633.
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In order to get maximum distance in the long jump, athletes need to train themselves to be patient while flying through the air. In this drill from University of Idaho director of track & field Tim Cawley, jumpers will learn to jump using a short step and hold their drive knee in the air.
Drill Summary: For this drill, you'll need an incline board and you'll need to place a high jump pit in the landing zone. Athletes line up in a single file line that will allow them to take a 10 yard run-up. Individuals take turns running and taking off of the incline board, making sure to hold their drive knee steady through the air until they land on the high jump pit.
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This video came from Championship Productions' video "Curriculum Guide for the Long Jump and Triple Jump." View other world class Track & Field videos!
USA Track & Field master coach Cliff Rovelto presents three drills that train athletes to be better high jumpers. These drills will improve the penultimate step and ability of athletes to be quick off their feet.
Drill Summary: For the circle popoffs, athletes run in a circle with a diameter of about fifteen yards. On every other step, execute a popoff. After doing that for a few times, run in the circle and do a popoff on every step. Make sure to do this in both directions to work both sides of the body. For hurdle popoffs, place four hurdles on their sides, about 4-5 feet apart in a line. Athletes jump over every hurdle, working on getting flat-footed contact and being quick off their feet. Finally, for the penultimate leg strengthening drill, athletes start down in a low position in front of the pit and bar with their penultimate leg forward while holding a rod on the back of their shoulders. To execute a rep, the athlete steps through, making sure to keep their low leg parallel to the ground.
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This video came from Championship Productions' video "Cliff Rovelto's Complete Guide to the High Jump." View other world class Track & Field videos!
Want to get the most out of every throw without putting too much stress on the body? Check out this posture and alignment drill from University of Nebraska throws coach Carrie Lane that will teach your discus throwers correct form.
Drill Summary: For this drill, athletes need a pole and a line to stand on. To begin, the athlete puts the pole on (and parallel to) their shoulders. Next, they set up in the stand throw position with their back foot on the line and their lead foot just off it. When taking their initial position, it is important for the athlete to line the pole up exactly perpendicular to the line on the ground. The next step is to rotate the lower body while keeping the pole in the same position. Coach Lane teaches her throwers "Tony Hip", or toe-knee-hip. If the thrower moves their body in that order, they'll execute better throws. The last step of the drill is to rotate the body to the target and finish with the pole over the athlete's head.
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This video came from Championship Productions' video "Becoming a Champion: Discus for Girls' Track & Field." View other world class Track & Field videos!
Craig Carter, University of Arizona throws coach, knows the importance of a proper weight transfer for shot putters. In this drill, athletes will learn to step into their throws to achieve maximum distance.
Drill Summary: For this drill, you will need a 4-inch box. Place the box at the front of the throwing circle. The athlete starts the drill by standing with both feet on the box, with the leg opposite of their throwing arm closest to the target. The first movement the athlete makes is a step back with their back leg, while also stretching out their non-throwing arm toward the back of the throwing circle. Once they've reached this position, the athlete rotates, shifts their weight up onto the box and explodes forward to throw the shot put.
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This video came from Championship Productions' video "Mega Drills for the Shot Put." View other world class Track & Field videos!
USC assistant coach Michael Pullins uses the "Standing Landing Drill with a Hurdle" for two main reasons. First, coaches can observe the athlete's jumping form; second, the athlete can practice landings on horizontal jumps. This is one of many drills that USC runners turned Olympians keep in their training routines after college.
Drill Summary: Set up with one hurdle on its side at the beginning of the sand pit and another one upright, about five feet before it on the runway. Athletes start behind the upright hurdle. To begin, the athlete jumps over the upright hurdle and lands between it and the hurdle on its side. After landing the first jump, the athlete immediately jumps again over the second hurdle into the sand pit. Coaches can alter the drill to add as many hurdles as they want before the final jump.
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Two employees from our Deschutes Brewery Family have been diagnosed with Cancer. In order to help Chris and Misael, we are having a Texas Hold 'Em Tournament Fundraiser & Silent Auction. All proceeds will go towards Chris and Misael's growing medical expenses.
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Gallenberg PC
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Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys, LLP
Los Angeles, California Personal Injury Lawyers(323) 238-4683 or (800) 561-4887
Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys has served California since 1978 and provides representation in accident cases. Bisnar Chase handles cases where plaintiffs have been hurt through car accidents, severe dog bites, motorcycle accidents, product defects, vehicle defects and other...
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Raines Feldman, LLP
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Data Mining, Algorithm Medicine and Skeptics
My recent Perspective on iHealthbeat focused on the uses of data mining of EMR data which are yet to be fully exploited. My thoughts were provoked by a New York Times article titled, Mining Electronic Records for Revealing Health Data. Although data mining in healthcare has gotten a bad reputation, an approach which respects privacy and a focus on research discovery can yield important results. The potential uses of EMRs in research is another opportunity yet to be realized.
A new article in The Atlantic, The Robot Will See You Now, discusses IBM Watson and other initiatives moving medicine toward what I call Algorithm Medicine and Artificial Intelligence. The potential of mining EMRs to generate real-time clinical decision support has exciting possibilities. However, there are skeptics, especially when the predictions expand to entertain the idea of replacing physicians. Realizing the limitations of technology must be acknowledge. For instance, the concerning problem of copy-and-paste in EMRs would have a negative affect on data mining those records. Also, data mining has presents real challenges both in defining research questions and finding the correct data to answer those questions.
So data mining shows promise but a realistic approach without wild predictions can lead to real discovery and impact on practice.
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The true treatment rate for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in veterans is unknown.
To determine the treatment prescription rates and predictors of treatment prescription for HCV in a large national population.
The Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database (NPCD) was used to identify all HCV‐infected people between the fiscal years 1999 and 2003 using the International classification of diseases, 9th revision codes. Demographic information, medical and psychiatric comorbidities, and drug and alcohol use diagnoses were retrieved. Pharmacy data were retrieved from the Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) database. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the predictors of treatment for HCV in HCV.
113927 veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs care with a diagnosis of HCV were identified. The treatment prescription rate for HCV was 11.8%. Patients not prescribed treatment were older, more likely to be from minority races, have more alcohol and drug misuse, and have medical and psychiatric comorbid conditions. In a multivariate logistic regression model, the following factors were predictive of non‐treatment for HCV: increasing age (odds ratio (OR) 0.77 for each 5‐year increase in age; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.76 to 0.78); black race (OR 0.64; 95% CI 0.6 to 0.68); Hispanic race (OR 0.88; 95% CI 0.8 to 0.96); alcohol abuse and dependence (OR 0.62; 95% CI 0.59 to 0.65); drug abuse and dependence (OR 0.78; 95% CI 0.74 to 0.82); anaemia (OR 0.18; 95% CI 0.16 to 0.21); hepatitis B infection (OR 0.72; 95% CI 0.62 to 0.83); coronary artery disease (OR 0.9; 95% CI 0.85 to 0.97); stroke (OR 0.75; 95% CI 0.67 to 0.85); bipolar disorder (OR 0.64; 95% CI 0.58 to 0.70); major depression (OR 0.72; 95% CI 0.67 to 0.77); mild depression (OR 0.56; 95% CI 0.53 to 0.59); and schizophrenia (OR 0.71; 95% CI 0.65 to 0.77). The following factors were associated with a higher likelihood of treatment prescription for HCV: liver cirrhosis (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.5 to 1.7); and diabetes (OR 1.07; 95% CI 1.02 to 1.12).
A small number of HCV‐infected veterans were prescribed treatment for HCV. Non‐treatment is associated with increasing age, non‐white race, drug and alcohol abuse, and dependence and comorbid illnesses. Reasons for non‐treatment need further study.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects >1.8% of the US population and more than 170 million people are infected worldwide. The disease course is highly variable, but up to 30% of infected individuals will develop cirrhosis after 20–30 years of chronic infection.1,2 HCV is a major cause of end‐stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma.3,4 It is also the leading reason for liver transplantation in the US.
Treatments for HCV that result in sustained elimination of viral replication are now available. The standard of care when treatment for HCV is indicated is a combination of interferon α (pegylated and non‐pegylated) and ribavirin. This combination is effective in achieving long‐term viral eradication in 54–56% of HCV‐infected people overall. The response rate for HCV genotype 1 is about 40%, whereas it approaches 80% for genotype 2 or 3 infection.5,6,7,8,9,10,11 Response rates are reported to be lower in HIV‐coinfected people and in blacks.12,13
Even with major advances in treatment for HCV, treatment is prescribed in only a minority of HCV‐infected people. Most published guidelines recommend treatment only for patients at risk of or with severe disease progression, who are likely to abstain from alcohol, and who can tolerate the common side effects associated with treatment.14,15,16 Studies at tertiary referral centres have demonstrated that only a minority of referred patients are recommended treatment, and most patients are not treated for HCV.17,18 Non‐adherence, hazardous alcohol consumption, and presence of medical and psychiatric comorbidities are the major reasons for not prescribing treatment in HCV‐infected people.17,18 Treatment prescription rates have not been determined in larger HCV‐infected populations, and the predictors of treatment remain largely unknown. We undertook this study to determine the rates of HCV treatment prescription in US veterans in care who were diagnosed with HCV, and to determine the role of demographic characteristic and medical and psychiatric comorbidity on the rates of treatment.
A cohort of HCV‐infected patients was assembled from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database (NPCD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) data. The assembly of this cohort has also been described in a recent publication.19 The utility and accuracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs administrative and PBM data have been previously reported by our group and by others.19,20,21,22,23,24,25 The NPCD contains hospitalisation records, including discharge diagnoses from 1970 onwards. The discharge diagnoses are coded according to the clinical modification of International classification of diseases, 9th revision (ICD‐9). From 1997 onwards, the NPCD also contains outpatient visit records, including diagnoses and clinic visits. The PBM database contains records of all drugs prescribed to veterans by any of the Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacies, including the dose and amount prescribed. The ICD codes for diagnoses of HCV, HIV and other medical, psychiatric and substance abuse have been tested and validated in the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system.20,23,26
Patients were considered to be infected with HCV if they had one inpatient or two outpatient ICD‐9 codes for HCV on two separate visits. We identified all veterans who were seen in the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system who met this definition between the fiscal years 1999 and 2003. Each patient was counted only once for the Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year in which they were first diagnosed. We retrieved demographic information including date of birth, recorded race and sex, and information on medical and psychiatric comorbidities, and drug and alcohol abuse and dependence. Medical and psychiatric comorbidities were also retrieved using ICD‐9 codes, and patients were considered to have a comorbid condition if at least one inpatient or two outpatient codes were identified. Data retrieved from the PBM included prescriptions of interferon α, pegylated interferon α, ribavirin and combinations of either type of interferon with ribavirin. Dates of prescription and cumulative duration of prescription were obtained. The doses of interferon generally used in the treatment of HCV were retrieved, and high‐dose interferon α treatment (>5 million units per dose given 3 times per week) was excluded, as such higher doses of interferon are not the standard doses used to treat HCV infection. Patients with a diagnosis of HIV infection were also excluded.
Prescription for HCV was defined as having received interferon α, pegylated interferon α or a combination of either with ribavirin for any duration of time. If a patient was prescribed multiple courses of treatment, only the first prescription was counted. Whether the patients actually took the treatment as prescribed was not ascertained. As depression and anaemia are well‐known side effects of interferon and ribavirin treatment, respectively, we excluded the observations for these comorbidities if they were diagnosed any time after initiation of treatment for HCV.
We compared the veterans who received treatment for HCV with those who did not receive treatment. The demographic characteristics were compared using χ2 test or t test as appropriate. We used univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses to determine the predictors of treatment for HCV in all identified patients. We used Stata V.8.2 for statistical analyses.
Using the above definitions, we identified 113927 patients with HCV who received care in any of the Department of Veterans Affairs facilities between the fiscal years 1999 and 2003. The median age was 50 years (mean 51.1 years); 96.9% were male; 40.1% were white, 22% were black and 5.2% were Hispanic (table 11).). In all, 44.3% of the patients had a diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence, and 40% had a diagnosis of drug abuse or dependence. The rates of medical and psychiatric comorbidities were as follows: anaemia 11.7%; hepatitis B 3%; diabetes 20.5%; coronary artery disease 13.5%; stroke 4.7%; pulmonary disorders (chronic obstructive disease and asthma) 19.3%; bipolar disorder 10.4%; major depression 18.4%; mild depression 32.4%; schizophrenia 9.5%; and post‐traumatic stress disorder 19.7%. Cirrhosis was diagnosed in 10.4% of the patients, and 11.8% of the patients received treatment for HCV (table 11).
The number of newly diagnosed cases increased from 1999 to 2001, after which there was a decline in their number. The largest number of newly diagnosed cases was in 2001, when 27315 new diagnoses of HCV were recorded. Treatment prescription for unique HCV‐infected patients increased throughout 1999–2003. The highest number was recorded in 2003 (3901 unique patients treated for the first time) and the lowest in 1999 (131 unique patients treated; fig 11).
Table 22 shows a comparison of treated and untreated patients. In all, 10077 patients were prescribed treatment and 103850 patients were not prescribed treatment for HCV. Treated patients were younger, less likely to be of black race, less likely to have a diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse or dependence, and less likely to have anaemia, hepatitis B virus infection, diabetes, coronary artery disease, stroke, pulmonary disease, bipolar disorder, major depression, mild depression, schizophrenia and post‐traumatic stress disorder (all comparisons, p<0.001). Treated patients were more likely to have a diagnosis of cirrhosis and to have had a liver biopsy.
In a multivariate logistic regression model, the following factors were predictive of non‐treatment for HCV: increasing age, black or Hispanic race, alcohol abuse or dependence, drug abuse or dependence, anaemia; hepatitis B infection, coronary artery disease, stroke, bipolar disorder, major depression, mild depression, and schizophrenia. Liver cirrhosis and diabetes were associated with a higher likelihood of treatment prescription for HCV (table 33).
The rate of pharmacotherapy for HCV in veterans was previously unknown. We found that 11.8% of HCV‐infected veterans receiving care at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities were treated for HCV infection between the fiscal years 1999 and 2003. To our knowledge, this is the largest study of this nature, and we studied all people identified in the Department of Veterans Affairs system, rather than a geographically localised or convenience sample. Our results, from among unselected veterans diagnosed with HCV, are consistent with other smaller studies conducted in referral clinics, although the treatment rate in our study was about one third of that found in selected subpopulations of HCV‐infected individuals referred to specialty clinics.17,18
However, these data need to be interpreted with caution. Our study does not take into account the eligibility for treatment for HCV infection. Indeed, about 15–25% of HCV‐infected people clear the viraemia spontaneously and are not candidates for treatment. Others have minimal evidence of liver disease from HCV and may reasonably decide to forgo or defer treatment.
However, other patients fall outside the recommendations of published guidelines owing to ongoing disorders or other comorbid conditions from substance misuse. Some veterans in our cohort may have received treatment at non‐Department of Veterans Affairs facilities but were classified as not treated in our study. However, considering the cost of treatment, and the fact that treatment in the Department of Veterans Affairs is available to the veterans regardless of their ability to pay, it is unlikely that a large number of veterans would have received treatment outside the Department of Veterans Affairs system.
Treated patients were younger and more likely to be white. Racial disparities in prescription and utilisation of clinical care have been reported in veterans and non‐veterans for various medical and surgical conditions.27,28,29,30 Conversely, most studies suggest that black race is associated with a poorer response to treatment for HCV, which may affect patients' and providers' decisions regarding treatment for HCV.13,31 Whether this is the reason in veterans has not been studied.
Patients with medical and psychiatric comorbidities (for example, anaemia, hepatitis B coinfection, coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes, pulmonary disease, bipolar disorder, major or mild depression, and schizophrenia) were less likely to have received treatment for HCV. Ribavirin is associated with a dose‐dependent haemolytic anaemia, and in patients with pre‐existing anaemia or coronary artery disease, providers may be hesitant to prescribe treatment that may exacerbate the condition or precipitate complications. Whether anaemia in our patients was a direct consequence of HCV treatment is not known. Depression is a well‐known side effect of interferon treatment, which may precipitate new‐onset depression or exacerbate pre‐existing depression, and is a major concern when making treatment decisions for HCV‐infected people. We excluded anaemia and depression if they were first diagnosed after initiating treatment for HCV to remove the confounding of treatment‐induced anaemia and depression.
In the logistic regression model, increasing age, minority race, drug and alcohol abuse and dependence, anaemia, hepatitis B, coronary artery disease, stroke, bipolar disorder, major and mild depression, and schizophrenia were associated with a lower likelihood of HCV treatment prescription. Active drug and alcohol abuse are relative contraindications to treatment for HCV, and the high rate of these may have contributed to overall low rates of treatment prescription in our study. Age, race, mild depression and schizophrenia are not absolute contraindications to treatment fpr HCV, even though the response rates may be lower in some groups—for example, black people with chronic HCV infection. Patients with cirrhosis were more likely to be prescribed treatment, which may reflect relatively advanced disease in these people. Decompensated cirrhosis is a contraindication to treatment. However, we could not assess whether the patients with cirrhosis in our study had stable or decompensated cirrhosis.
Liver biopsy is recommended to assess the degree of liver disease and to make treatment decisions. In our study, a minority of untreated patients underwent liver biopsy. This suggests that the decision not to treat was based on criteria other than liver biopsy in most patients. Whether non‐invasive markers were used to assess liver injury or whether these patients have other contraindications to biopsy or treatment is not known.
The number of new diagnoses of HCV increased between 1999 and 2001. This is probably a reflection of the effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs in raising awareness and increasing testing among the veterans. In 2002–3, this number dropped, which may indicate "testing fatigue" by the providers or that most infected people had already been diagnosed. The number of treated people increased throughout 1999–2003. This is probably attributable to increased awareness and designation of HCV as a national priority by the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as to increasing confidence of the providers with more data now available regarding efficacy of treatment and associated side effects. Availability of pegylated interferons and the associated ease of administration compared with the older standard interferon may also have led to the increasing number of infected veteran being treated.
Certain limitations to this study must be taken into account when interpreting the results. These include an analysis of administrative databases and the fact that patients were identified using ICD‐9 codes. However, the accuracy of the ICD‐9 codes has been tested in the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system. Diagnostic code agreement and κ values for HCV were validated in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study 3.20 Compared with the HCV antibody test, the sensitivity and specificity of the codes were 74% and 98%, respectively, and positive and negative predictive values were 96% and 84%, respectively. The agreement in these readings was 88% and the κ value was 0.74. Kramer et al23 also reported the positive predictive value of the ICD‐9 diagnosis to be 94% and the negative predictive value to be 90%. In the Veterans Aging Cohort Study 3, 880 of the 881 participants were correctly identified as having HIV when compared with chart abstractions and antibody test, providing a high level of sensitivity. Other ICD‐9 codes have also been validated against chart reviews. For example, the sensitivity, specificity, agreement and κ values have been reported as follows:
We did not determine how many untreated people were actually eligible for treatment. Treatment prescription was determined from pharmacy records, and whether the patients actually took any of the drugs prescribed is unknown. Additionally, some patients may have received treatment outside a Department of Veterans Affairs facility and would have been missed in our counts.
Designation of race is problematic in the Department of Veterans Affairs administrative data, with different methods used at local sites to determine the race, including patient report and observer determination by the person registering the patient at the local Department of Veterans Affairs facility. This may lead to different racial categories entered on different visits. Such discrepancies may have contributed to a large number of unknown/other racial categories in our study.
Despite these limitations, our study has considerable strengths. This report provides the first robust estimates of treatment rates for HCV in a broad, non‐selected clinical population. Although rates of treatment are available from clinical trials or specialty referral clinics, those studies are generally geographically limited or represent highly selected patients. Thus, those estimates are not applicable to general patient populations with HCV. Our data represent national rates for a large cohort of US veterans. Although we cannot determine the reasons for non‐treatment, this does provide a good estimate of actual treatment rates and should serve as a reference for other large integrated healthcare groups. Reasons for non‐treatment in veterans and non‐veterans need further study to determine whether there are any modifiable factors associated with non‐treatment for HCV, and whether treating those people would favourably alter outcomes.
In conclusion, a small number of HCV‐infected veterans are prescribed treatment for HCV. Non‐treatment is associated with increasing age, minority race, drug and alcohol use, and medical and psychiatric comorbid illnesses. Reasons that affect patients' and providers' decisions regarding treatment for HCV require further study.
HCV - hepatitis C virus
ICD‐9 - International classification of diseases, 9th revision
NPCD - National Patient Care Database
PBM - Pharmacy Benefits Management
Funding: This study was funded by National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA016175‐01A1, AAB).
Competing interests: None.
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