Table 1 Erase Hep C study objectives
Objective | Approach |
|---|---|
1. Identify facilitators and barriers affecting HCV treatment workflows | Conduct a contextual assessment that includes observational process mapping and qualitative interviews with patients, clinic staff, and external organizations that provide HCV testing and either linkage to care or provide treatment in the Austin area |
2. Design site-specific HCV treatment workflows using baseline data from objective 1 | A human-centered design approach will be used to co-create these workflows in a series of collaborative site-specific workshops between the research and clinic-specific teams |
3. Develop and deliver a curriculum to train frontline primary healthcare providers on the evidence-based, simplified HCV treatment algorithm and to train providers and clinic staff on the site-specific HCV treatment workflows | Utilize the simplified HCV clinical curriculum developed by the research team’s hepatologist and the workflows designed in objective 2 |
4. Conduct a prospective single-arm clinical trial of these site-specific HCV treatment workflows to evaluate both clinical and implementation outcomes | Implement the workflows designed in objective 2. Enroll and treat 289 patients to achieve cure of HCV |