2022
DOI: 10.1097/mcg.0000000000001787
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Integration of Cirrhosis Best Practices Into Electronic Medical Record Documentation Associated With Reduction in 30-Day Mortality Following Hospitalization

Abstract: Background: Hospital admissions for patients with cirrhosis continue to increase. In New York City, 25% to 30% of hospitalized cirrhotics are readmitted within 30 days. Rehospitalization is associated with increased mortality, poor quality of life, and financial burden to patients, hospitals, and payers. Preventable readmissions are partially accounted for by a well-documented quality gap between evidencebased guidelines for cirrhosis management and real-world adherence to these recommendations. Methods:We per… Show more

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“…Various QI interventions in cirrhosis targeted higher compliance to recommended process measures with the goal of achieving superior clinical outcomes (survival, decreased rate of complications) and avoiding unwarranted hospital service utilization (preventable admissions/readmissions, unjustified length of hospital stay). To overcome the knowledge gap due to time restrains and difficulty for hospital practitioners to keep up to date with the latest guidelines, many QI trials have used easy-to-access and time-efficient tools to reduce variation in clinical practice: handheld checklists, 16 templated notes, 17 best practice alerts/decision support, 16 and clinical pathways/order sets 18,19 . More resource-intensive solutions have addressed institutional logistics and culture changes but require high commitment across all shareholders: “best practice” in emergency room focusing on timely interventions, 20 dedicated teams to perform emergency room or inpatient paracentesis, 21 bundled interventions to ensure timely performance of diagnostic paracentesis (education + workflow support/ultrasound/premade kits + alert + orderset) 22 or postdischarge care management programs 23,24 …”
Section: Aligning Clinical Practice With Guideline Recommendationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Various QI interventions in cirrhosis targeted higher compliance to recommended process measures with the goal of achieving superior clinical outcomes (survival, decreased rate of complications) and avoiding unwarranted hospital service utilization (preventable admissions/readmissions, unjustified length of hospital stay). To overcome the knowledge gap due to time restrains and difficulty for hospital practitioners to keep up to date with the latest guidelines, many QI trials have used easy-to-access and time-efficient tools to reduce variation in clinical practice: handheld checklists, 16 templated notes, 17 best practice alerts/decision support, 16 and clinical pathways/order sets 18,19 . More resource-intensive solutions have addressed institutional logistics and culture changes but require high commitment across all shareholders: “best practice” in emergency room focusing on timely interventions, 20 dedicated teams to perform emergency room or inpatient paracentesis, 21 bundled interventions to ensure timely performance of diagnostic paracentesis (education + workflow support/ultrasound/premade kits + alert + orderset) 22 or postdischarge care management programs 23,24 …”
Section: Aligning Clinical Practice With Guideline Recommendationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This concept in a liver process has been validated for liver fibrosis, by correlating the grade of liver fibrosis with plasma liver enzymes in multiple clinical trials, i.e., Fib-4 [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]. The MELD score (modeling for end-stage liver disease) predicts mortality at 90 days in patients listed for liver transplantation, and it is the standard for liver graft allocation in the US and abroad [ 28 , 29 , 30 ]. Nevertheless, a reliable LLBx that predicts the development of HCC prior to its detection by imaging, remains to be determined and validated.…”
Section: Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%