AASLD Needs Assessment-AASLD Needs Assessment

AASLD Needs Assessment
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The AASLD 2024 Report outlines key learning needs and practice gaps for its members by synthesizing information from learner feedback, website traffic, journal articles, disease prevalence data, performance assessments, and patient reports. The identified topics of importance are as follows:<br /><br />1. **MASLD/MASH**: Covers epidemiology, diagnostic testing including non-invasive tests (NITs), treatment options, and research pathways.<br />   <br />2. **Viral Hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)**: Emphasizes diagnosis/testing, treatment, and growing rates of Hepatitis A and C.<br /><br />3. **Cirrhosis**: Details treatments including medications and alternative methods, use of NITs, drug-induced liver injury (DILI), epidemiology, and public policy implications.<br /><br />4. **Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer)**: Discusses epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, treatment (medical, radiological, surgical, transplant), and emerging therapies.<br /><br />5. **Autoimmune Liver Diseases**: Focuses on autoimmune hepatitis, PBC, PSC, epidemiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment, and quality of life impact.<br /><br />6. **Metabolic Liver Diseases**: Encompasses hemochromatosis and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, with attention to epidemiology, diagnosis, extrahepatic manifestations, and therapies.<br /><br />7. **Portal Hypertension**: Includes topics on ascites, bacterial peritonitis, treatments, and diagnostic tools.<br /><br />8. **Hepatic Encephalopathy**: Highlights diagnosis, impact on quality of life, caregivers, inpatient and outpatient treatments.<br /><br />9. **Alcohol-associated Liver Disease**: Covers identification, diagnosis, evaluation of alcohol use disorder, management of hepatitis including transplants, increasing incidence, stigma, public policy, and multidisciplinary care.<br /><br />10. **Liver Failure**: Reviews both acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatments.<br /><br />11. **Liver Transplantation and Surgery**: Discusses MELD score updates, liver cancer, pediatric transplants, acute liver failure, immunosuppression, and pregnancy-related considerations.<br /><br />12. **Patient-Focused Care**: Emphasizes quality of life impacts, palliative care, personalized medicine, and social determinants of health such as insurance, housing, and financial status.<br /><br />13. **Practice Management**: Reviews challenges like prior authorization, integration with other specialties, role of advanced practice providers, electronic health records (EHR), and coding practices.<br /><br />This comprehensive list identifies the priorities for continuous education and improvements in liver disease management.