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Incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C in prisons and other closed settings: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis

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HCV is a significant concern in detained populations, with one in four detainees anti‐HCV‐positive, and greater attention towards prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HCV infection among detained populations is urgently required.
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This article is published in Hepatology.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.

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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences

TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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EASL recommendations on treatment of hepatitis C: Final update of the series ☆

TL;DR: These European Association for the Study of the Liver recommendations on treatment of hepatitis C describe the optimal management of patients with recently acquired and chronic HCV infections in 2020 and onwards.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

TL;DR: Moher et al. as mentioned in this paper introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which is used in this paper.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.

TL;DR: The QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) as mentioned in this paper was developed to address the suboptimal reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

TL;DR: A new quantity is developed, I 2, which the authors believe gives a better measure of the consistency between trials in a meta-analysis, which is susceptible to the number of trials included in the meta- analysis.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

TL;DR: A structured summary is provided including, as applicable, background, objectives, data sources, study eligibility criteria, participants, interventions, study appraisal and synthesis methods, results, limitations, conclusions and implications of key findings.
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