Economic burden of cirrhosis in Catalonia: a population-based analysis.

1–3 In fact, there is an increasing trend of diagnosis of chronic liver disease and its decompensation and complications (including hepatocellular carcinoma). 4 The time interval between the compensated phase of cirrhosis and the development of complications (decompensated cirrhosis) is often long, with a reported median survival of 12 yea

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23 Nevertheless, our results suggest that this impact is likely to be significant because expenditures in patients with recent hepatic decompensation totalled more than twice those in patients who had not had a decompensation for at least 1 year and more than three times those in patients with compensated cirrhosis.

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The number of outpatient visits to other departments also increased, but the difference did not reach statistical significance.

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