Society guideline links: Alcohol-associated liver disease

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Cirrhosis" and "Society guideline links: Hepatocellular carcinoma".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Global status report on alcohol and health and treatment of substance use disorders (2024)

United States

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline on alcohol-associated liver disease (2024)

●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD): Practice guidance for the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol-associated liver diseases, 2019 (published 2020)

●ACG: Clinical guideline for the evaluation of abnormal liver chemistries (2017)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update for the medical management of severe alcoholic hepatitis – Expert review (2017)

Europe

●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Practical guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease (2020)

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of alcohol-related liver disease (2018)

●EASL: Clinical practice guidelines on nutrition in chronic liver disease (2018)

United Kingdom

●British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) and British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG): Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease – Consensus recommendations (2023)

●BSG: Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests (2017, reviewed 2021)

●UK Liver Advisory Group: Liver transplantation for alcohol-related liver disease in the UK – Revised recommendations for referral (2021)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on alcohol-use disorders – Diagnosis and management of physical complications (2010, updated 2017)