Patient Compliance During PegIntron and Rebetol Combination Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C (Study P04690)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Participants will receive PegIntron injection pen (Peginterferon alfa-2b) and Rebetol (Ribavirin) combination therapy as their usual medical treatment. The current study aims to evaluate whether the previously introduced, and now widely accepted and implemented educational program, which represents additional efforts in everyday practice to increase patient compliance, will succeed in achieving adherence rate in treated participants similar to the extent demonstrated by clinical trials.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
• Treatments: Interferon-alpha; Peginterferon alfa-2b; Ribavirin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Before inclusion, all participants must be informed and must give consent for the use of his/her anonymized health data related to his/her treatment with Peginterferon alfa-2b (injection pen) and Ribavirin.

Exclusion Criteria:

• According to Peginterferon alfa-2b/Ribavirin label.