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Article History

Received: 11 May 2020

Accepted: 23 July 2020

First Online: 6 August 2020

Compliance with ethical standards

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: All studies were conducted as per the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013) as well as with the national and institutional standards and regulations in each participating state.

: SC has no conflicts of interest to declare. WC has served as principal investigator on research projects funded by the European Commission Third Health Programme, the Health Research Board of Ireland and Ireland’s Health Services Executive, as well as being a co-investigator on projects funded by Gilead and Abbvie. JL has previously received non-restricted grants from Abbvie, MSD and Gilead and MSD for hepatitis C-related educational and research activities.

: Each component of HepCare was approved by the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Research Ethics Committee in Dublin, as well as the research committees in each collaborating institution: the North West–Haydock Research Ethics Committee, London; Victor Babes Clinical Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Bucharest; and Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville.

: In each case, participants were given written and verbal information regarding the purpose of the study and use of their data. They provided written consent, with no inducements offered. All participants were made aware of likely publication of data prior to giving consent.

: No primary statistical analysis performed.