| Title |
Medical decision making and risky choices: psychological and medicolegal consequences of HIV and HCV contamination of blood products
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|---|---|
| Published in |
HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.), August 2017
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| DOI | 10.2147/hiv.s137419 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
S Riva, S Del Sordo, U Genovese, G Pravettoni |
| Abstract |
The overall goal of this article is to make a scientific comment about the psycho-social consequences of hemophilia patients affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) and to point out the related medicolegal issues. This commentary takes into account some published evidences about the current scenario of hemophilia patients infected by HIV and/or HCV who received contaminated blood products in the late 1970s through 1985. Several psychological and medicolegal consequences are related with HIV and HCV contamination of blood products. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to treat all the difficulties experienced by these patients and to ensure good clinical decisions in medical practice. The literature on the psychosocial functioning of hemophilia patients with human HIV and HCV infection offers a number of implications, including medicolegal issues, that can be discussed for guaranteeing a good level of care and safeguard of this group of patients. |
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| United States | 2 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 18% |
| Researcher | 3 | 18% |
| Other | 2 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
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