Alcoholic liver disease: proposed recommendations for the American College of Gastroenterology

The objective of this work was to develop practice guidelines for the management of alcoholic liver disease.

A computerized search using the Medline Data Base from 1966-July 1997 was performed with the search headings; alcohol, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, liver transplant, diagnosis, epidemiology, human, and English only. All randomized controlled trials, case-control studies, and meta-analyses were read in depth. A manual search was also done using references from each retrieved report, review articles, editorials, postgraduate course syllabi, and textbooks. In the subsequent review, evidence was evaluated using a hierarchical scale with randomized, controlled trials given the most importance. Abstracts presented at national meetings were included only when unique data were obtained from those studies.

Published by The American journal of gastroenterology, 1998. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

doi.org/10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00587.x