Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds - Jennifer Lai, MD

Educational objectives

1. Understand the transplant dilemma and how our current liver assessment tools contribute to this.
2. Apply a framework for medical decision-making to transplant decisions.
3. Assess frailty in patients with cirrhosis using objective metrics.

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