Hiroshi Fukui, Hidetsugu Saito, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Hirofumi Uto, Katsutoshi Obara, Isao Sakaida, Akitaka Shibuya, Masataka Seike, Sumiko Nagoshi, Makoto Segawa, Hirohito Tsubouchi, Hisataka Moriwaki, Akinobu Kato, Etsuko Hashimoto, Kojiro Michitaka, Toshikazu Murawaki, Kentaro Sugano, Mamoru Watanabe, Tooru Shimosegawa
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology revised the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for liver cirrhosis in 2015. Eighty-three clinical questions were selected, and a literature search was performed for the clinical questions with use of the MEDLINE, Cochrane, and Igaku Chuo Zasshi databases for the period between 1983 and June 2012. Manual searching of the latest important literature was added until August 2015. The guidelines were developed with use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system...
July 2016: Journal of Gastroenterology