Wednesday, January 21, 2015

CLD- Special Issue: Quality Assessment in Liver Disease

Special Issue: Quality Assessment in Liver Disease
Read the latest issue of "Clinical Liver Disease" an official digital educational resource from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. 

Table Of Contents

Series on New Treatments for Hepatitis C
The new treatments for hepatitis C virus: An advanced practice provider's perspective (pages 153–155)
Lisa Cervantes
Get step-by-step instructions on how to get antiviral treatment for patients infected with HCV based on the new IDSA/AASLD guidelines.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.432
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Procedures for the Liver Patient
Peter Bannas, M.D., Diego Hernando, Ph.D., Utaroh Motosugi, M.D., Alejandro Roldan, Ph.D., Scott Brian Reeder, M.D., Ph.D.
Know the current state-of-the-art techniques, and the remaining challenges, for the quantitative imaging of hepatic steatosis, iron overload, and fibrosis.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.424
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Sumit Singla, M.D., and Cyrus Piraka, M.D.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) revolutionized the diagnosis and management of pancreatobiliary disease, but advances in noninvasive radiographic and less invasive endoscopic imaging have transformed ERCP into an almost exclusively therapeutic procedure.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.441
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More from Procedures for the Liver Patient: Fibroscan
Keyur Patel, M.D., and Julius Wilder, M.D., Ph.D.

New Issue: Quality Assessment in Liver Disease
Michael L. Volk, M.D., MSc
Among patients with decompensated cirrhosis, hospital readmissions are common, costly, partially preventable, and independently associated with mortality.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.420
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Jayant A. Talwalkar, M.D., M.P.H.
Over the past 5 years there has been a tremendous amount of policy making centered around improving the performance of health care systems in the U.S., spurred by reports describing less than ideal patient-centered outcomes despite nearly 20% of the country’s gross domestic product being invested in health care.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.425
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Amy K. Kim, M.D., and Amit G. Singal, M.D., M.S.
HCC disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations, with the highest age-specific rates among racial/ethnic minorities. Learn about the health disparities in prevention, early detection, and treatment.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.427
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Jayant A. Talwalkar M.D., M.P.H.
Emerging data suggests that innovative care delivery models will also play a major role in the delivery of specialty care, including the clinical practices of general and transplant hepatology.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.429
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Fasiha Kanwal, M.D., M.S.H.S.
Quality assessment in chronic disease has become increasingly widespread with the need to measure and improve quality of care now even more urgent given the advent of pay-for-performance under the Affordable Care Act.
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/cld.435
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