Should Transplant Hepatologists Serve as Primary Care Physicians?

摘要

The authors acknowledge several shortcomings in the present study: the results were based on the perceptions of hepatologists (no hard data were collected)regarding the prevalence of metabolic complications.There was interinstitutional variability in the responses of hepatologists, and the survey lacked any representation of PCPs. This most likely led to a significant bias toward hepatologists. Nevertheless, the data derived from the survey regarding the prevalence of these metabolic complications post-LT do correlate with most of the data published so far.