The Liver Frailty Index enhances mortality risk prediction above and beyond MELD 3.0 alone

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
• ² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• ⁴ Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Baylor Scott and White Health, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• ⁵ Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁷ Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes Research Collaborative (NUTORC), Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery and Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.