Delivering High Quality Care

AQ Decompensated Liver Disease: A Quick Guide (AQ22001)

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An introduction to the Advancing Quality decompensated liver disease (DLD) programme. You'll learn about our work on DLD, what data we collect and why.

Course content

Lesson Introduction
- How to navigate The Hub
- Overview and objectives
Lesson About decompensated liver disease (DLD)
- Decompensated liver disease (DLD) overview
- Who gets DLD?
- Trends in liver disease
- Importance of appropriate management
- Quiz
Lesson DLD and the Advancing Quality Programme
- Introduction
- How we measure care
- The AQ process
- The AQ DLD measure set
- Risk of alcohol withdrawal assessment
- IV Pabrinex within 8 hours
- Ascitic tap within 24 hours
- Infected ascites treated
- Referral to alcohol care team within 24 hours
- Suspected variceal bleed treated within 24 hours
- Gastroenterology or hepatology review or admission within 24 hours
- Child-Pugh score within 24 hours
- Key insights
- Quiz
Lesson More about AQ and DLD
- Further reading
- The AQ team
- Thank you
- Evaluation