Quality Measures, All-Cause Mortality, and Health Care Use in a National Cohort of Veterans With Cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT: Decompensated cirrhosis is associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, no standardized quality measures (QMs) have yet been adopted widely. The Veterans Affairs (VA) Advanced Liver Disease Technical Advisory Group recently developed a set of six internal QMs to guide quality improvement efforts in cirrhosis in the domains of access to care, hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance, variceal surveillance, quality of inpatient care for upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and cirrhosis-related rehospitalizations. We aimed to (1) quantify adherence to cirrhosis QMs and (2) determine whether adherence was associated with all-cause mortality and health care use within a large national cohort of veterans with cirrhosis. We performed a retrospective study using data from the Veterans Outcomes

SUBMITTER: Serper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864236 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature