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Liver Int ; 40(1): 60-73, 2020 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31654608

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Chronic liver diseases (CLDs) are major health problems that require complex and costly treatments. Liver-specific clinical outcome indicators (COIs) able to assist both clinicians and administrators in improving the value of care are presently lacking. The Value-Based Medicine in Hepatology (VBMH) study aims to fill this gap, devising and testing a set of COIs for CLD, that could be easily collected during clinical practice. Here we report the COIs generated and recorded for patients with HBV or HCV infection at different stages of the disease. METHODS/RESULTS: In the first phase of VBMH study, COIs were identified, based on current international guidelines and literature, using a modified Delphi method and a RAND 9-point appropriateness scale. In the second phase, COIs were tested in an observational, longitudinal, prospective, multicentre study based in Lombardy, Italy. Eighteen COIs were identified for HBV and HCV patients. Patients with CLD secondary to HBV (547) or HCV (1391) were enrolled over an 18-month period and followed for a median of 4 years. The estimation of the proposed COIs was feasible in the real-word clinical practice and COI values compared well with literature data. Further, the COIs were able to capture the impact of new effective treatments like direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) in the clinical practice. CONCLUSIONS: The COIs efficiently measured clinical outcomes at different stages of CLDs. While specific clinical practice settings and related healthcare systems may modify their implementation, these indicators will represent an important component of the tools for a value-based approach in hepatology and will positively affect care delivery.


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Antivirais/uso terapêutico , Hepatite B Crônica/tratamento farmacológico , Hepatite C Crônica/tratamento farmacológico , Indicadores de Qualidade em Assistência à Saúde , Idoso , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/epidemiologia , Feminino , Gastroenterologia/normas , Hepatite B Crônica/complicações , Hepatite C Crônica/complicações , Humanos , Itália/epidemiologia , Cirrose Hepática/epidemiologia , Neoplasias Hepáticas/epidemiologia , Estudos Longitudinais , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos , Análise de Sobrevida , Resultado do Tratamento , Seguro de Saúde Baseado em Valor
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Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis ; 1864(4 Pt B): 1415-1422, 2018 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28844954

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BACKGROUND: Autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis represent the three major autoimmune liver diseases (AILDs). Their management is highly specialized, requires a multidisciplinary approach and often relies on expensive, orphan drugs. Unfortunately, their treatment is often unsatisfactory, and the care pathway heterogeneous across different centers. Disease-specific clinical outcome indicators (COIs) able to evaluate the whole cycle of care are needed to assist both clinicians and administrators in improving quality and value of care. Aim of our study was to generate a set of COIs for the three AILDs. We then prospectively validated these indicators based on a series of consecutive patients recruited at three tertiary clinical centers in Lombardy, Italy. METHODS: In phase I using a Delphi method and a RAND 9-point appropriateness scale a set of COIs was generated. In phase II the indicators were applied in a real-life dataset. RESULTS: Two-hundred fourteen patients were enrolled and followed-up for a median time of 54months and the above COIs were recorded using a web-based electronic medical record program. The COIs were easy to collect in the clinical practice environment and their values compared well with the available natural history studies. CONCLUSIONS: We have generated a comprehensive set of COIs which sequentially capture different clinical outcome of the three AILDs explored. These indicators represent a critical tool to implement a value-based approach to patients with these conditions, to monitor, compare and improve quality through benchmarking of clinical performance and to assess the significance of novel drugs and technologies. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Cholangiocytes in Health and Diseaseedited by Jesus Banales, Marco Marzioni, Nicholas LaRusso and Peter Jansen.


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Doenças Autoimunes/terapia , Colangite Esclerosante/terapia , Hepatite Autoimune/terapia , Avaliação de Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde/métodos , Indicadores de Qualidade em Assistência à Saúde , Adulto , Idoso , Doenças Autoimunes/epidemiologia , Colangite Esclerosante/epidemiologia , Procedimentos Clínicos/organização & administração , Técnica Delphi , Feminino , Seguimentos , Hepatite Autoimune/epidemiologia , Humanos , Incidência , Itália/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos , Análise de Sobrevida , Centros de Atenção Terciária/estatística & dados numéricos
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