Study	Reason for exclusion
Alvarez 2004	Observational study (patient series). 13 participants with severe alcoholic hepatitis treated with systemic glucocorticosteroids and total enteral nutrition.
Cabré 2000	Randomised trial of glucocorticosteroids versus nutrition in people with alcoholic hepatitis. Participants received oral or intravenous prednisolone or enteral nutrition (2000 kcal/day of a chemically defined polymeric enteral diet enriched in branched‐chain amino acids).
Christensen 1981	Quasi‐randomised clinical study
Copenhagen 1969	Meta‐analysis
Daures 1991	Meta‐analysis
Dhanda 2016	Prospective single‐centre cohort of people with severe alcoholic hepatitis treated with steroids; incidence and significance of infection.
Galambos 1984	Reported in article through private contacts as part of Shumaker 1978.
Gill 1984	Trial randomised 10 people with severe alcoholic hepatitis to prednisolone, testosterone, and amino acid supplement versus no intervention.
Goldis 2000	Observational study (patient series); the authors used a control group from the same centre.
Hozo 1996	Trial randomised people with alcoholic liver cirrhosis to glucocorticosteroids versus placebo.
Imperiale 1990	Meta‐analysis
Lee 2016	Review
Lesesne 1978	Randomised trial of glucocorticosteroids versus nutrition in people with alcoholic hepatitis. Participants received glucocorticosteroids plus permission to eat as they wanted or a maximum of 600 kcal/day as intravenous glucose, while the control group received caloric supplements of at least 1600 kcal/day.
Mal 1991	Abstract about influence of corticosteroids on the level of serum tumour necrosis factor concentrations
Mathurin 2018	Trial randomised people with alcoholic hepatitis to receive selonsertib 18 mg versus placebo infliximab versus placebo. All participants received prednisone 40 mg orally.
Mendenhall 1993	Chapter on alcoholic hepatitis in a book
Moreno 2014	Multicentral study with 2 groups of comparison of intensive enteral nutrition with complete nutrition. Both groups received prednisolone.
Morris 2005	Observational study (patient series)
Naganuma 2014	Trial of granulocytapheresis and leukocytapheresis for the treatment of severe alcoholic hepatitis
Naveau 2004	Trial randomised people with alcoholic hepatitis to receive infliximab versus placebo. All participants received prednisone.
Phillips 2001	Trial randomised participants to antioxidants versus glucocorticosteroids.
Poynard 1991	Meta‐analysis on alcoholic hepatitis
Reynolds 1989	Narrative review on alcoholic hepatitis
Schlichting 1976	Quasi‐randomised clinical study
Singal 2018	Review
Spahr 2002	Trial randomised people with alcoholic hepatitis to receive infliximab versus placebo. All participants received prednisone.
Stewart 2002	Trial stratified participants by gender and glucocorticosteroid use, and then randomised participants to receive antioxidants versus placebo.
Szabo 2018	Trial randomised people with alcoholic hepatitis to receive prednisolone 32 mg orally daily for 28 days versus a combination of anakinra + pentoxifylline + zinc orally
Tygstrup 1979	Meta‐analysis