Predicting short-term mortality and long-term survival for hospitalized US patients with alcoholic hepatitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

No study has evaluated current scoring systems for their accuracy in predicting short and long-term outcome of alcoholic hepatitis in a US population.

Methods

We reviewed electronic records for patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital between January 2002 and August 2005. Data and outcomes for 148 of 1,761 admissions meeting pre-defined criteria were collected. The discriminant function (DF) was revised (INRdf) to account for changes in prothrombin time reagents that could potentially affect identification of risk using the previous DF threshold of >32. Admission and theoretical peak scores were calculated by use of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD). Analysis models compared five different scoring systems.

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SUBMITTER: Cuthbert JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071136 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature