Since its proposal, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score has been employed to predict short-term mortality ...

Adoption of a new version of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, known as MELD 3.0, closed the gap in access to liver transplant between men and women, an analysis showed. Since MELD 3.0 was ...

While the total median MELD score at transplant for non-exception cases decreased from 29 to 27 after the policy change, women still had a higher median score of 29 at transplant compared to a ...