Integrated hepatology and addiction care for inpatients with alcohol use disorder improves outcomes: a prospective study.

Background: Growing literature highlights the need to integrate hepatology and addiction care to improve outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease. However, prospective data for this approach are lacking.

Methods: We prospectively examined the efficacy of an integrated hepatology and addiction medicine approach on alcohol use and hepatology outcomes in inpatients with alcohol use disorder.

Creation of an Inpatient Alcohol Liver Service Improves Early Liver Disease Detection in Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder.

One of the most common and devastating complications of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the development of alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). Unfortunately, outcomes of patients with ALD are poor, in large part because patients with ALD are diagnosed at a much later stage of disease compared with patients with other causes of liver disease. Accordingly, earlier detection is critical in combating the high mortality associated with ALD.

Expanding collaborative boundaries in nursing education and practice: The nurse practitioner-dentist model for primary care.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of a novel interprofessional collaborative practice education program for nurse practitioner and dental students, the Nurse Practitioner-Dentist Model for Primary Care (NPD Program). The NPD Program expands collaborative boundaries in advanced practice nursing by integrating primary care within an academic dental practice. The dental practice is located in a large, urban city in the Northeast United States and provides comprehensive dental services to vulnerable and underserved patients across the age spectrum.