2023
Rates, patterns, and predictors of specialty palliative care consultation among patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure
Patel A, Walling A, Kanwal F, Serper M, Hernaez R, Sundaram V, Kaplan D, Taddei T, Mahmud N. Rates, patterns, and predictors of specialty palliative care consultation among patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure. JHEP Reports 2023, 6: 100976. PMID: 38274489, PMCID: PMC10808910, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100976.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialty palliative care consultationPalliative care consultationChronic liver failureFacility-level variationCare consultationsLiver failurePalliative careTime of deathACLF-3Significant facility-level variationRetrospective cohort studyTiming of consultationFacility factorsMixed-effects regression analysisQuality improvement effortsACLF gradeACLF-1ACLF-2Acute hospitalizationCohort studyIll patientsACLFGrade 3Hepatocellular carcinomaSick patients
2019
Quality Measures, All‐Cause Mortality, and Health Care Use in a National Cohort of Veterans With Cirrhosis
Serper M, Kaplan DE, Shults J, Reese PP, Beste LA, Taddei TH, Werner RM. Quality Measures, All‐Cause Mortality, and Health Care Use in a National Cohort of Veterans With Cirrhosis. Hepatology 2019, 70: 2062-2074. PMID: 31107967, PMCID: PMC6864236, DOI: 10.1002/hep.30779.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth care useHepatocellular carcinoma surveillanceCause mortalityCare useVariceal surveillanceQuality improvement effortsPostdischarge careNational cohortSpecialty careOutpatient accessFuture quality improvement effortsLiver disease cohortUpper gastrointestinal bleedingLarge national cohortGastrointestinal bleedingMean followAdjusted analysisHigh morbidityRetrospective studyDomains of accessVeteran outcomesStandardized quality measuresInpatient careDisease cohortHigh adherence