The need for hospitalization for viral hepatitis should be divided into situations, as follows: 1. After hepatitis B virus infection, carriers can work, study and live completely normally, and do not need to be hospitalized; 2. Patients with viral hepatitis who have abnormal liver function, such as severe liver function impairment, need to be hospitalized; 3. Patients with hepatitis C and B who have cirrhosis or other complications, such as ascites, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, renal function impairment pulmonary impairment, encephalopathy, bone disease, outpatient treatment can not achieve the purpose, need hospitalization; 4, hepatitis A and E is basically an acute process, no chronicity, liver function needs to be hospitalized when severe involvement; 5, hepatitis A is the most common in the clinic is recessive infection, this part of the patients do not have typical clinical manifestations, but can produce resistant antibodies, this part of the population does not need hospitalization.