A New Look at Goals-of-Care Discussions in Patients with Cirrhosis and Acute Kidney Injury

Arpan A Patel^{1

2}, Anne Walling^{3

4}, Amar Bansal⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850, Room 810, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA. ArpanPatel@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ArpanPatel@mednet.ucla.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Editorial

Arpan A Patel et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2024 Jun.

. 2024 Jun;69(6):1920-1921.

doi: 10.1007/s10620-024-08300-4. Epub 2024 Mar 7.

Arpan A Patel^{1

2}, Anne Walling^{3

4}, Amar Bansal⁵

¹ Department of Medicine and Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850, Room 810, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA. ArpanPatel@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ArpanPatel@mednet.ucla.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

No abstract available

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