Billing data are subject to miscoding, and no clinical data were used to confirm vaccine receipt. Exclusion of hemodialysis patients was based on CPT coding. Excluding clinical data from identification of these patients may have resulted in misclassification if the patient received a non-hemodialysis ...
HBV causes acute and chronic hepatitis B; chronic HBV infection puts more than 250 million virus carriers at a greatly increased risk to develop terminal liver disease, i.e., liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [1]. While an effective prophyla...
HBV causes acute and chronic hepatitis B; chronic HBV infection puts more than 250 million virus carriers at a greatly increased risk to develop terminal liver disease, i.e., liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [1]. While an effective prophylactic vaccine is available ...