The Liverpool Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Algorithm can help to identify a patient with alcoholic liver disease in administrative data.
Parameters:
(1) primary diagnosis
(2) secondary diagnosis
Code patterns indicative of alcoholic liver disease:
Primary Diagnosis
Secondary Diagnosis
alcoholic liver disease
NA
diagnosis a known complication of alcoholic liver disease
unspecified liver disease
diagnosis specifying alcohol use
where:
• A diagnosis related to alcoholic liver disease may specify alcohol in its name (alcohol intoxication, alcohol withdrawal, alcohol gastritis, etc).
• If the secondary diagnosis is alcoholic liver disease, then the primary diagnosis should be a known complication of alcoholic liver disease.
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Specialty: Gastroenterology
