Table 2.
Items used to calculate a standardized index
| I. Counseling and support services |
| a. Explanations of the counseling center website (yes/no) |
| b. Establishment of the counseling center (yes/no) |
| c. Number of counselors |
| d. Number of counseling sessions |
| e. Collaboration with municipal governments related to counseling and support services |
| II. Liver disease seminars/family support lectures |
| a. Number of liver disease seminars held |
| b. Mean number of participants in liver disease seminars |
| c. Number of family support lectures held |
| d. Mean number of participants in family support lectures |
| III. Employment support |
| a. Establishment of employment support services (yes/no) |
| b. Number of sessions |
| IV. Other forms of patient support |
| a. Patient meet‐ups (yes/no) |
| b. Lectures by patients or former patients |
| c. Peer supporter training workshops |
| d. Preparation/distribution of hepatitis patient support handbooks |
| V. Regional counseling and support networks |
| a. Training for hepatitis medical care coordinators (yes/no) |
| b. Number of hepatitis medical care coordinators in training |
| c. Knowledge of hepatitis medical care coordinator placement (yes/no) |
| VI. Training for health care workers |
| a. Number of regional core center liaison conferences held |
| b. Number of hepatitis specialist training workshops held |
| c. Mean number of participants in hepatitis specialist training workshops |
| d. Number of training workshops for general medical professionals held |
| e. Mean number of participants in training workshops for general medical professionals |
| VII. Education for citizens |
| a. Number of public seminars organized |
| b. Number of participants in public seminars |
| c. Preparation of hepatitis care support leaflets (yes/no) |
| d. Events/symposiums held (yes/no) |
| e. Preparation of posters/leaflets (yes/no) |
| f. Publicity via newspaper advertisements, train advertisements, newspaper articles, etc. (yes/no) |
| g. Other educational activities held (yes/no) |
| VIII. In‐hospital alerts for patients with positive hepatitis virus tests |
| a. Alert system using electronic medical records, etc. (yes/no) |