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Child-Pugh Score for Mortality in Cirrhosis
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This chapter provides a summary of a landmark historical study in surgery deriving the Child-Pugh score for mortality in cirrhosis. It describes the history of the disease, gives a summary of the study including study design and results, and relates the study to a modern-day principle of evidence-based medicine: prognosis studies. There is a critical need for prognostic tools for selecting appropriate patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension for surgical intervention. The development of the Child-Pugh score, and now the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, has provided surgeons with an evidence-based objective tool for informing these decisions.
Title: Child-Pugh Score for Mortality in Cirrhosis
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This chapter provides a summary of a landmark historical study in surgery deriving the Child-Pugh score for mortality in cirrhosis.
It describes the history of the disease, gives a summary of the study including study design and results, and relates the study to a modern-day principle of evidence-based medicine: prognosis studies.
There is a critical need for prognostic tools for selecting appropriate patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension for surgical intervention.
The development of the Child-Pugh score, and now the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, has provided surgeons with an evidence-based objective tool for informing these decisions.
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