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. 2020 Sep;159(3):1134-1136.e3.
doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.05.005. Epub 2020 May 6.

Declining Cirrhosis Hospitalizations in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Cohort Study

Nadim Mahmud  1 , Rebecca A Hubbard  2 , David E Kaplan  3 , Marina Serper  4
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Declining Cirrhosis Hospitalizations in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Cohort Study

Nadim Mahmud et al. Gastroenterology. 2020 Sep.
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Keywords: Admissions; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; Coronavirus; LOS, length of stay; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; SIP, shelter-in-place; Utilization; VHA, Veterans Health Administration; Veterans Health Administration.

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National weekly cirrhosis hospitalizations between January 1 and April 15 in 2019 and 2020. Note. Recent reports on April 22, 2020, suggest that the first true COVID-19–related death in the United States occurred in early February 2020; however, before April 22, the first widely publicized death was on February 29, 2020.
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