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

Table 4 Crude and adjusted for GGT hazard ratio (HR) of death and 95%CI for the four scoring systems.

Scoring system	Unadjusted		Adjusted
	HR (95%CI)	c-statisticsHR	(95%CI)	c-statistics
Child-Pugh score	1.23 (1.04-1.45)	0.65	1.38 (1.14-1.68)	0.77
Modified Child-Pugh-I score	1.21 (1.09-1.36)	0.69	1.30 (1.13-1.50)	0.79
Modified Child-Pugh-II score	1.30 (1.13-1.48)	0.70	1.38 (1.18-1.62)	0.78
MELD score	1.11 (1.06-1.15)	0.73	1.10 (1.06-1.15)	0.81

MELD: Model for End-stage Liver Disease. HR (95%CI) are expressed for 1 unit increase.