The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Accurately Predicts 90-Day Liver Transplant Wait-List Mortality in Atlantic Canada
Author(s) -
P. Douglas Renfrew,
Hude Quan,
Christopher J. Doig,
Elijah Dixon,
Michele Molinari
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
canadian journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-7237
pISSN - 0835-7900
DOI - 10.1155/2011/454727
Subject(s) - medicine , generalizability theory , liver transplantation , liver disease , cohort , model for end stage liver disease , receiver operating characteristic , incidence (geometry) , area under the curve , cohort study , demography , transplantation , surgery , statistics , mathematics , geometry , sociology
To determine the generalizability of the predictions for 90-day mortality generated by Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) and the serum sodium augmented MELD (MELDNa) to Atlantic Canadian adults with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation (LT).
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