TY - JOUR
T1 - Hepatology in a changing health care landscape
T2 - A call for health services research
AU - VanWagner, Lisa B.
AU - Kanwal, Fasiha
N1 - Funding Information:
Received December 22, 2017; accepted March 9, 2018. Dr. VanWagner is currently supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, grant number K23HL136891. Dr. Kanwal is an Investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (#CIN 13-413) and the National Institute of Health Center for GI infection and injury (P30DK056338).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - With the passage of the Affordable Care Act followed by the physician payment reform, there is an urgent need to better understand the complex relationships between structure (including incentives), processes, and outcomes of health care and, based on this understanding, identify interventions that can ensure delivery of high-value care to patients with liver disease. As hepatologists, how do we systematically address these issues and ensure that we provide high-value care to our patients? These factors combine in the burgeoning field of health services research. This article seeks to describe how health services research influences the practice of hepatology, the tools and technologies it utilizes, as well as how interested individuals can seek to acquire knowledge and methodological training in health services research. Finally, we summarize the current state of health services research in hepatology and liver transplantation. (Hepatology 2018).
AB - With the passage of the Affordable Care Act followed by the physician payment reform, there is an urgent need to better understand the complex relationships between structure (including incentives), processes, and outcomes of health care and, based on this understanding, identify interventions that can ensure delivery of high-value care to patients with liver disease. As hepatologists, how do we systematically address these issues and ensure that we provide high-value care to our patients? These factors combine in the burgeoning field of health services research. This article seeks to describe how health services research influences the practice of hepatology, the tools and technologies it utilizes, as well as how interested individuals can seek to acquire knowledge and methodological training in health services research. Finally, we summarize the current state of health services research in hepatology and liver transplantation. (Hepatology 2018).
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U2 - 10.1002/hep.29880
DO - 10.1002/hep.29880
M3 - Article
C2 - 29537697
AN - SCOPUS:85053403110
SN - 0270-9139
VL - 68
SP - 1154
EP - 1162
JO - Hepatology
JF - Hepatology
IS - 3
ER -