Bush H, et al. - Researchers investigated temporal changes in the different types of liver disease (LD) cases and outcomes from emergency departments (EDs) across the United States using data from the National Inpatient Survey database from 2005 to 2011. During the study period, they identified 20,641,839 cases in EDs. Among these, they matched 1,080,008 LD-related cases to control cases without LD (N=19,557,585). They noted an increase in the number of LD cases presenting to EDs. A diagnosis of LD was found to be associated with higher mortality for those admitted through the ED. Among cases with LD, diagnosis of hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, and alcoholic liver disease remained stable during the study years, whereas nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diagnoses showed a dramatic increase.