TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Frontline Gastroenterology JO - Frontline Gastroenterol SP - 229 LP - 229 DO - 10.1136/flgastro-2017-100887 VL - 8 IS - 4 AU - Anton V Emmanuel Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://fg.bmj.com/content/8/4/229.abstract N2 - This edition of Frontline Gastroenterology continues two abiding themes of the journal’s mission – first, the drive to be a journal which influences day to day clinical practice and second, to be a resource for trainee gastroenterologists. The journal this month has several articles which will make readers and service leaders question what gastrointestinal services need to be made available to optimise local service provision. We will prioritise for rapid publication such articles (of prospective and high quality retrospective studies) that have direct patient benefit.Hepatic encephalopathy is associated with a poor prognosis and increased health resource utilisation, and until the advent of rifaxamin there had been no new treatment modality for many years. A real world study of resource use following initiation of rifaximin in 13 hospitals in the UK is reported in this edition of the journal. Published data to date has tended to come from specialist institutions, so this is an important study. Patients … ER -