Distinct risk groups with different healthcare barriers and acute care use exist in the U.S. population with chronic liver disease

• Carrie R. Wong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: crwong@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliations Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2052-3701

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• Catherine M. Crespi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Beth Glenn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Steven-Huy B. Han,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• James A. Macinko,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Roshan Bastani

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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