Why 3.0? Since 2002 MELD scores have been used to prioritize patients with chronic liver disease for transplantation depending on medical urgency or the risk of mortality without transplant.

More information: Xia Yu et al, Evidence-based incorporation of key parameters into MELD score for acute-on-chronic liver failure, eGastroenterology (2024). DOI: 10.1136/egastro-2024-100101 ...

MELD score has been adopted since 2002 for organ allocation to patients listed for liver transplantation in the United States. [30] According to the MELD-based policy, patients with the highest ...

The Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score and Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score are two commonly used indices of liver disease severity in patients with cirrhosis [27] ( Table 1).

Moylan and colleagues have discovered that since the introduction of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) for liver transplant allocation, ethnicity is no longer associated with access to ...