AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY

Publications: the association's publications program includes four medical journals. "hepatology", the official journal of the association, and "liver transplantation" provide peer-reviewed research on the liver and biliary tract and their diseases. "liver transplantation", a specialty journal, publishes state-of-the-art information on liver transplantation. "clinical liver disease" (cld) is an online educational journal that addresses treatment issues faced by hepatologists and nonhepatologists when seeing patients with liver disease. "hepatology communications" is a peer-reviewed, online-only open access journal for fast dissemination of high quality basic, translational, and clinical research in hepatology.practice resources: aasld's practice resources program includes (1) practice guidelines (2) practice quality metrics and (3) the cirrhosis quality collaborative.(1) aasld practice guidelines: aasld develops clinical practice guidelines which include recommendations that are supported by a high level of scientific evidence to assist practitioner and patient decisions for appropriate health care related to specific clinical circumstances.(2) practice quality metrics: aasld develops performance measures that serve as metrics to evaluate quality of care provided to patients with liver diseases, from both the provider and patient perspective.(3) cirrhosis quality collaborative (cqc) is a multi-site data registry and learning health network, re-launched in collaboration with target rwe, aimed at bridging the gaps between best practice and current practice to treat cirrhosis by combining quality improvement and research to deliver real world data and evidence that will improve patient care and treatment outcomes.clinical and public policies: aasld conducts a public and clinical policy program, which is supervised by the public policy committee. It holds two events each year: liver capitol hill day and federal agency day. In the former, aasld partners with patient advocacy organizations to educate congressional legislators and staff on issues related to liver disease research and patient care. In the latter, aasld discusses with key federal agency partners ways in which aasld can inform the scientific community of federal research priorities. Aasld keeps its members informed of legislative and agency decisions that affect hepatology, and encourages them to remain involved in public policy issues.