Nadir Abbas, Rachel Smith, Steven Flack, Vikram Bains, Richard J Aspinall, Rebecca L Jones, Laura Burke, Douglas Thorburn, Michael Heneghan, Andrew Yeoman, Joanna Leithead, Conor Braniff, Andrew Robertson, Chris Mitchell, Collette Thain, Robert Mitchell-Thain, David Jones, Palak J Trivedi, George F Mells, Laith Alrubaiy
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Guidelines for the management of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) were published by the British Society of Gastroenterology in 2018. In this study, we assessed adherence to these guidelines in the UK National Health Service (NHS). METHODS: All NHS acute trusts were invited to contribute data between 1 January 2021 and 31 March 2022, assessing clinical care delivered to patients with PBC in the UK. RESULTS: We obtained data for 8,968 patients with PBC and identified substantial gaps in care across all guideline domains...
January 2024: JHEP reports: innovation in hepatology