Validation of a Simple Quality‐of‐Life Score for Identification of Minimal and Prediction of Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy
Mette Munk Lauridsen, Peter Jepsen, Charlotte Wilhelmina Wernberg, Ove B. Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Hendrik Vilstrup – 3 July 2020 – Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is underdiagnosed because most clinics refrain from psychometric testing. Diagnostic activities need to go up so patients with MHE can get the treatment their condition requires. The sickness impact profile questionnaire for covert hepatic encephalopathy (SIPCHE) score is based on quality‐of‐life outcomes and has been proposed as a simple, patient‐administered diagnostic score for grade 1 and MHE.