Decreased Completion of Ordered Laboratories and Imaging in Telehealth Compared With In-person Hepatology Encounters.

Objective: To evaluate order completion after telehealth compared with in-person encounters.

Background: Completion of ordered testing, including laboratories and imaging, is an important aspect of successful outpatient care of patients with liver disease. Whether the completion of orders from telehealth encounters differs from in-person visits is unknown.

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MRI-based radiomic feature analysis of end-stage liver disease for severity stratification.

Purpose: We aimed to develop a predictive model of disease severity for cirrhosis using MRI-derived radiomic features of the liver and spleen and compared it to the existing disease severity metrics of MELD score and clinical decompensation. The MELD score is compiled solely by blood parameters, and so far, it was not investigated if extracted image-based features have the potential to reflect severity to potentially complement the calculated score.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of eligible patients with cirrhosis ([Formula: see text]) who underwent a contrast-enhanced MR screening protocol for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) screening at a tertiary academic center from 2015 to 2018.

Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center.

Background: Racial inequities for patients with heart failure (HF) have been widely documented. HF patients who receive cardiology care during a hospital admission have better outcomes. It is unknown whether there are differences in admission to a cardiology or general medicine service by race.