Publications by authors named "Lawrence D Gerber"
Background: Patients needing large-volume paracenteses (LVPs) can occupy inpatient hospital beds and unnecessarily use inpatient resources.
Methods: We describe an outpatient paracentesis clinic that was part of a quality assurance initiative at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Pennsylvania. A retrospective review was conducted that included patient age, sex, etiology of ascites, amount of ascites removed, time of the procedure, complications, and results of ascites cell count and cultures abstracted from the electronic health record.