MELD vs Child-Pugh and creatinine-modified Child-Pugh score for predicting survival in patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Table 2 Comparisons of the areas under the ROC curve of Child-Pugh, modified Child-Pugh-I, modified Child-Pugh-II and MELD scores for 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-mo survival.

Survival (mo)	Predictive scores	Area under ROC	P (χ2)
3	Child-Pugh	0.73	0.19
	Modified Child-Pugh-I	0.76	0.58
	Modified Child-Pugh-II	0.78	0.73
	MELD	0.79
6	Child-Pugh	0.71	0.18
	Modified Child-Pugh-I	0.73	0.49
	Modified Child-Pugh-II	0.76	0.85
	MELD	0.77
12	Child-Pugh	0.68	0.09
	Modified Child-Pugh-I	0.73	0.38
	Modified Child-Pugh-II	0.74	0.51
	MELD	0.78
24	Child-Pugh	0.7	0.27
	Modified Child-Pugh-I	0.75	0.48
	Modified Child-Pugh-II	0.76	0.64
	MELD	0.79

P for comparison with MELD score.