Fig 1.
Proportion of risk factors associated with deaths from liver-related diseases reported in the Ghana District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2) between 2018–2020 from seven referral centres in Ghana with 95% CI.
Abbreviations: CLD- Chronic Liver Disease, HCC- Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Fig 2.
Proportion of risk factors associated with death from hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, and chronic liver disease in 11 referral hospitals in Ghana.
Abbreviations: HBV- Hepatitis B Virus, HCV- Hepatitis C Virus.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of liver cirrhosis and HCC patients.
Fig 3.
Proportion of risk factors for cirrhosis and HCC in patients seen at a tertiary referral centre in Ghana.
Abbreviations: HBV- Hepatitis B Virus, HCV- Hepatitis C Virus, NAFLD- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Table 2.
Logistic regression analysis of clinical variables associated with HCC (outcome) compared with cirrhosis in patients admitted to a tertiary referral centre.
Table 3.
Baseline characteristics of patients discharged vs. patients who died on admission by diagnosis.
Table 4.
Univariable logistic regression analysis of variables associated with in-hospital mortality (outcome) from liver cirrhosis and HCC.
Table 5.
Multivariable logistic regression analysis of predictors of in-patient mortality from liver cirrhosis and HCC.
Fig 4.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves comparing in-patient survival probabilities between liver cirrhosis patients and HCC patients.
Fig 5.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves comparing in-patient survival by MELD-Na score.
Fig 6.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves comparing in-patient survival by Child-Pugh score.