Care coordination for patients with cirrhosis: A "win-win" solution for patients, caregivers, providers, and healthcare expenditures

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 203-204

  Ge, Phillip S ^a   Runyon, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBULATORY CARE; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL;

EID: 84880311189     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2013.04.021     Document Type: Editorial

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