2017
Healthcare Costs Related to Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among Veterans With Cirrhosis in the United States
Kaplan DE, Chapko MK, Mehta R, Dai F, Skanderson M, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, D’Addeo K, Fox R, Hunt K, Pocha C, Valderrama A, Taddei TH, Group V. Healthcare Costs Related to Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among Veterans With Cirrhosis in the United States. Clinical Gastroenterology And Hepatology 2017, 16: 106-114.e5. PMID: 28756056, PMCID: PMC5735018, DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2017.07.024.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultivariable generalized linear modelsMultidisciplinary tumor boardHepatocellular carcinomaIntegrated health systemCancer-related costsHealthcare costsLiver transplantationBCLC stageLiver diseaseTumor boardBarcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stageVeterans Affairs Corporate Data WarehouseHealth systemCases of HCCBasis of receiptLiver disease cohortReceipt of transplantationLiver disease etiologyChronic liver diseaseLiver Cancer stageLiver cancer surveillanceBasis of severityHospital academic affiliationCorporate Data WarehouseCirrhosis controls
2015
Development and Performance of an Algorithm to Estimate the Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score From a National Electronic Healthcare Database
Kaplan DE, Dai F, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, Fox R, Hunt K, Knott A, Pedrosa M, Pocha C, Mehta R, Duggal M, Skanderson M, Valderrama A, Taddei TH, Group V. Development and Performance of an Algorithm to Estimate the Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score From a National Electronic Healthcare Database. Clinical Gastroenterology And Hepatology 2015, 13: 2333-2341.e6. PMID: 26188137, PMCID: PMC4655141, DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2015.07.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCTP scoreAdministrative databasesChild-TurcottePugh scoreVeterans Health Administration Corporate Data WarehouseLaboratory dataCox proportional hazards regressionSeverity of ascitesTransplant-free survivalSeverity IndexInternational normalized ratioClinical laboratory valuesHarrell's C-statisticProportional hazards regressionDiseases version 9U.S. Veterans Health AdministrationVeterans Health AdministrationMulticenter collaborative studyLarge administrative databaseLong-term survivalDisease severity scoreValidity of diagnosesCorporate Data WarehouseElectronic healthcare databasesCommon Procedural TerminologyInterim analysis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) screening and survival in 4,087 veterans diagnosed with HCC from 2008 to 2010.
Kaplan D, Taddei T, Aytaman A, Hunt K, Knott A, Dieperink E, Baytarian M, Fox R, Pedrosa M, D'Addeo K, Dai F, Mehta R, Duggal M, Pocha C, Skanderson M, Valderrama A. Interim analysis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) screening and survival in 4,087 veterans diagnosed with HCC from 2008 to 2010. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2015, 33: 243-243. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.33.3_suppl.243.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVeterans Health AdministrationHepatocellular carcinomaTumor sizeICD9 codesInterim analysisVA Corporate Data WarehouseCharlson-Deyo indexLiver disease careEtiology of cirrhosisPresence of ascitesLarger tumor sizeIVA/IVBHepatocellular carcinoma screeningTotal tumor sizeNumber of tumorsCorporate Data WarehouseMultivariate survival modelsMajority of veteransMedian OSAdvanced diseaseHepatitis CMilan criteriaBCLC stagingChart abstractionHepatitis B