A Video-Observed Treatment Strategy to Improve Adherence to Treatment Among Persons Who Inject Drugs Infected With Hepatitis C Virus: Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perceptions and Experiences

Alison Karasz   ¹ , PhD ;   Krupa Merchant   ² , MD ;   Julia Arnsten   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Judith Feinberg   ⁴ , MD ;   Arthur Y Kim   ⁵ , MD ;   Paula J Lum   ⁶ , MPH, MD ;   Melissa Diane McKee   ¹ , MS, MD ;   Shruti H Mehta   ⁷ , PhD ;   Paul Meissner   ³ , MSPH ;   Brianna L Norton   ³ , MPH, DO ;   Kimberly Page   ⁸ , MPH, MS, PhD ;   Irene Pericot-Valverde   ⁹ , PhD ;   Reena Singh   ³ , MA ;   Ellen Stein   ⁶ , MPH ;   Lynn E Taylor   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Judith I Tsui   ¹¹ , MPH, MD ;   Katherine Wagner   ⁸ , MPH ;   Alain Litwin   ¹² , MD

¹ University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

² Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, United States

³ Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States

⁴ West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States

⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁷ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁸ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

⁹ Clemson University, Greenville, SC, United States

¹⁰ University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, United States

¹¹ University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States

¹² Prisma Health/Clemson University, Greenville, SC, United States