Delivery of Outpatient Cirrhosis Care Via Tele-visit is Not Associated with Increased Mortality as Compared to Traditional In-Person Visits

Providers and patients have expressed concern that care provided through telehealth results in poorer outcomes than traditional in-person care. On the contrary, we hypothesized that patients with cirrhosis engaging in video/phone-based outpatient gastroenterology/hepatology tele-visits do not differ in mortality from those receiving in-person outpatient clinic visits.