Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) Calculator

by Mark Morgan on June 8, 2011

in Gastroenterology

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Summary: This calculator provides the MELD score for patients with cirrhosis. Included mortality prediction is 3 month mortality for hospitalized patients.
Gastroenterology article Wiesner (2003) Gastroenterology 124: 91-96.
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) allocation page.
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) documentation.
You may also be interested in the Child-Pugh Liver Failure Prognosis Calculator at http://www.soapnote.org/digestive-system/child-pugh-score/.

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  • maintained at soapnote.org.
  • bilirubin units = mg/dL
  • creatinine units = mg/dL

Result - Paste this into your EHR:

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