Funding for the development of this Practice Guidance was provided by the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. MV was supported by aAQ19 Patient-Centered …

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common cancer with a poor prognosis, associated with high
economic costs and a significant burden of disease. While it is often asymptomatic in the …

Palliative care focuses on symptom management, discussion of treatment and care
decisions, network organization, and support of the family. As part of the advance care …

The clinical stages of cirrhosis have traditionally been divided into a compensated phase
with no complications and a decompensated phase that manifests with complications of …

Background and Aims Alcohol‐related liver disease is often undetected until irreversible late‐
stage decompensated disease manifests. Consequently, there is an unmet need for effective …

Palliative care (PC) that has evolved from a focus on end‐of‐life care to an expanded form of
holistic care at an early stage for patients with serious illnesses and their families is …

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) occurs in~ 25% of hospitalized patients with
decompensated cirrhosis (DC)(1) and is associated with high, short-term mortality.(1, 2) The …

Palliative care (PC) benefits patients with serious illness including end‐stage liver disease
(ESLD). As part of a cluster randomized trial, hepatologists were trained to deliver primary …

BACKGROUND Palliative care (PC) has been shown to be beneficial in end stage liver
disease (ESLD), yet the hospitalization data for PC utilization is unknown. AIM To identify the …

Objective For eight chronic diseases, evaluate the association of specialist palliative care
(PC) exposure and timing with hospital-based acute care in the last 30 days of life. Design …