Publications

All publications resulting from the utilization of UCSF Pepper Center resources and services are required to credit the UCSF Pepper Center grant by including the NIH Funding Acknowledgment and must comply with NIH Public Access Policy.

 

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Featured Publications

Predicted probabilities of survival for 4 patients with cirrhosis on the LT waitlist, classified by a combination of MELDNa and frailty index scores. MELDNa scores (14 and 23) and frailty index scores (3.2 = robust and 4.5 = frail) were selected because they represented the bottom 20th percentile and top 80th percentile values for the cohort.

 

 

Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease

Jennifer C Lai 1, Kenneth E Covinsky 2, Jennifer L Dodge 3, W John Boscardin 2 4, Dorry L Segev 5, John P Roberts 3, Sandy Feng 3

Affiliations

1Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

2Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

3Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

5Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

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Six pillars of advance care planning. Pillars refer to key stakeholders or potential intervention targets.
Six pillars of advance care planning. Pillars refer to key stakeholders or potential intervention targets.

 

 

Deconstructing the Complexities of Advance Care Planning Outcomes: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Scoping Review

Ryan D McMahan 1 2, Ismael Tellez 1 2, Rebecca L Sudore 1 2

Affiliations

1Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

2San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California.

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