Mortality burden due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in Ghana; prevalence of risk factors and predictors of poor in-hospital survival

• Yvonne A. Nartey ,

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

  * E-mail: ayerki.nartey@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Internal Medicine, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2891-3082

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• Samuel O. Antwi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2372-9489

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• Ansumana S. Bockarie,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences, Cape Coast, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-1493

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• Lindsey Hiebert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA, United States of America

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• Henry Njuguna,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA, United States of America

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• John W. Ward,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA, United States of America

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• Yaw A. Awuku,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

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• Amelie Plymoth,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lewis R. Roberts

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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