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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S5 - E9.4 - In-office MASLD Screening and the Clinical Care Pathway
Description: This conversation explores the implications of increased access to economically viable in-office screening, particularly when primary care practices begin to use the new scanning devices.Roger Green begins this conversation by recalling a concern Naim Alkhouri expressed during S4 E50.3, that primary care reliance on FIB-4 can flood the pathways with many “wrong” patients, which might lead to confusion within the channels. Hannes Hagstrom describes a role for primary care at the top of the funnel if practitioners have clear guidance and training. Roger suggests this approach will make primary care providers triagists. The group agrees as long...