Posters
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Resident
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Internal Medicine
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Resident
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Internal Medicine
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Medical Student
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Internal Medicine
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Community/Public Health
Abstract
Palliative care is a service with a very wide vision and potent tool. Palliative care applies early in the course of terminal illness in conjunction with therapies intended to prolong life; it is not limited to end-of-life care. Patients with liver cirrhosis only have one healing treatment, a liver transplant, but the limitation in the number of organ donors and eligibility criteria reduces the number of transplants. The MELD-Na score provides validated mortality prognostic for the next 90 days in patients with liver cirrhosis. This study aimed to determine if palliative care services are underutilized and could be more evident in uninsured or undocumented patients.
Presentation Type
Poster
Recommended Citation
Polo Perez, Ismael; Corria Cedeno, Dailis S.; Movva, Hari; Das, Hari; and Movva, Giri, "Utilization of Palliative Care Service in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis in an Underserved area, 2015-2019" (2024). Research Colloquium. 29.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/colloquium/2023/posters/29
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Utilization of Palliative Care Service in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis in an Underserved area, 2015-2019
Palliative care is a service with a very wide vision and potent tool. Palliative care applies early in the course of terminal illness in conjunction with therapies intended to prolong life; it is not limited to end-of-life care. Patients with liver cirrhosis only have one healing treatment, a liver transplant, but the limitation in the number of organ donors and eligibility criteria reduces the number of transplants. The MELD-Na score provides validated mortality prognostic for the next 90 days in patients with liver cirrhosis. This study aimed to determine if palliative care services are underutilized and could be more evident in uninsured or undocumented patients.