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Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests

Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests
Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests

These updated guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) under the auspices of the liver section of the BSG. The original guidelines, which this document supersedes, were written in 2000 and have undergone extensive revision by members of the Guidelines Development Group (GDG). The GDG comprises representatives from patient/carer groups (British Liver Trust, Liver4life, PBC Foundation and PSC Support), elected members of the BSG liver section (including representatives from Scotland and Wales), British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL), Specialist Advisory Committee in Clinical Biochemistry/Royal College of Pathology and Association for Clinical Biochemistry, British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN), Public Health England (implementation and screening), Royal College of General Practice, British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiologists (BSGAR) and Society of Acute Medicine. The quality of evidence and grading of recommendations was appraised using the AGREE II tool. These guidelines deal specifically with the management of abnormal liver blood tests in children and adults in both primary and secondary care under the following subheadings: (1) What constitutes an abnormal liver blood test? (2) What constitutes a standard liver blood test panel? (3) When should liver blood tests be checked? (4) Does the extent and duration of abnormal liver blood tests determine subsequent investigation? (5) Response to abnormal liver blood tests. They are not designed to deal with the management of the underlying liver disease.

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1468-3288
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Newsome, Philip N., Cramb, Rob, Davison, Suzanne M., Dillon, John F., Foulerton, Mark, Godfrey, Edmund M., Hall, Richard, Harrower, Ulrike, Hudson, Mark, Langford, Andrew, Mackie, Anne, Mitchell-Thain, Robert, Sennett, Karen, Sheron, Nicholas C., Verne, Julia, Walmsley, Martine and Yeoman, Andrew (2018) Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests. Gut, 67 (1), 6-19. (doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314924).

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These updated guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) under the auspices of the liver section of the BSG. The original guidelines, which this document supersedes, were written in 2000 and have undergone extensive revision by members of the Guidelines Development Group (GDG). The GDG comprises representatives from patient/carer groups (British Liver Trust, Liver4life, PBC Foundation and PSC Support), elected members of the BSG liver section (including representatives from Scotland and Wales), British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL), Specialist Advisory Committee in Clinical Biochemistry/Royal College of Pathology and Association for Clinical Biochemistry, British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN), Public Health England (implementation and screening), Royal College of General Practice, British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiologists (BSGAR) and Society of Acute Medicine. The quality of evidence and grading of recommendations was appraised using the AGREE II tool. These guidelines deal specifically with the management of abnormal liver blood tests in children and adults in both primary and secondary care under the following subheadings: (1) What constitutes an abnormal liver blood test? (2) What constitutes a standard liver blood test panel? (3) When should liver blood tests be checked? (4) Does the extent and duration of abnormal liver blood tests determine subsequent investigation? (5) Response to abnormal liver blood tests. They are not designed to deal with the management of the underlying liver disease.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 October 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 November 2017
Published date: 1 January 2018
Keywords: alcoholic liver disease, fibrosis, liver, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

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Local EPrints ID: 417328
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/417328
ISSN: 1468-3288
PURE UUID: 3ceb92d2-7a07-4011-933d-5ebc4baf4350
ORCID for Nicholas C. Sheron: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5232-8292

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 18:09

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Author: Philip N. Newsome
Author: Rob Cramb
Author: Suzanne M. Davison
Author: John F. Dillon
Author: Mark Foulerton
Author: Edmund M. Godfrey
Author: Richard Hall
Author: Ulrike Harrower
Author: Mark Hudson
Author: Andrew Langford
Author: Anne Mackie
Author: Robert Mitchell-Thain
Author: Karen Sennett
Author: Nicholas C. Sheron ORCID iD
Author: Julia Verne
Author: Martine Walmsley
Author: Andrew Yeoman

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