Why the study?
What is the interobserver variability among pathologists in scoring liver biopsies with a diagnosis of alcoholic hepatitis?
What is the interobserver variability among pathologists in scoring liver biopsies with a diagnosis of alcoholic hepatitis?
Significant interobserver variability among pathologists in scoring alcoholic hepatitis liver biopsies may limit the usefulness of the AHHS in everyday clinical practice.
May limit AHHS utility in routine care; leaves open standardized criteria or training to improve reproducibility.
In general, features of AH can be recognized with a slight-to-moderate level of interobserver agreement and there was fair interobserver agreement on assigning an AHHS category. Significant interobserver variability among pathologists revealed by the current study can limit its usefulness in everyday clinical practice.
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