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 ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedFemaleHealth ServicesHumansLiver CirrhosisMaleMiddle AgedQuality ImprovementQuality of Health CareRetrospective StudiesVeteransConceptsHealth 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