Table 2 Comparison of APACHE IV, SAPS 3, APACHE II, MELD-Na, and CTP scores according to MELD score in predicting in-hospital mortality.

From: Comparison of APACHE IV with APACHE II, SAPS 3, MELD, MELD-Na, and CTP scores in predicting mortality after liver transplantation

MELD score or donor status

Non-survivor/total patients

AUC (95% confidence interval)

APACHE IV -LT specific predicted mortality

SAPS 3

APACHE II

MELD-Na

MELD

CTP

<15

4/309

0.93 (0.81–1.00)

0.82 (0.58–1.00)

0.77 (0.52–1.00)

0.62 (0.30–0.94)

—

0.57 (0.32–0.81)*

15–24

3/161

0.87 (0.75–0.98)

0.61 (0.39–0.84)†

0.52 (0.24–0.79)‡

0.65 (0.52–0.77)

—

0.59(0.22–0.96)

≥25

10/120

0.84 (0.53–1.00)

0.70 (0.52–0.89)

0.80 (0.69–0.91)

0.58 (0.37–0.79)

—

0.56 (0.35–0.77)

Living donor

6/412

0.91 (0.82–1.00)

0.72 (0.47–0.96)

0.80 (0.62–0.99)

0.61 (0.38–0.85)

0.65 (0.42–0.88)

0.62 (0.39–0.84)

Deceased donor

11/178

0.87 (0.82–0.92)

0.71 (0.55–0.86)§

0.73 (0.45–0.90)

0.73 (0.57–0.88)

0.76 (0.61–0.92)

0.61 (0.40–0.81)

All

17/590

0.91 (0.86–0.96)

0.78 (0.66–0.90)

0.81 (0.70–0.92)

0.74 (0.57–0.86)

0.76 (0.64–0.89)

0.68 (0.54–0.81)

  1. Statistical comparison of APACHE IV-LT specific predicted mortality according to MELD scores with *CTP scores (p < 0.001), †SAPS 3 scores (p = 0.012), and ‡APACHE II scores (p < 0.001) after Holm adjustment for multiple comparisons.
  2. Statistical comparison of APACHE IV-LT specific predicted mortality in deceased donor liver transplantation with §SAPS 3 scores (p = 0.012) and MELD-Na scores (p < 0.001) after Holm adjustment for multiple comparisons.
  3. APACHE, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; LT, liver transplantation; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; MELD-Na, model for end-stage liver disease-Na; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; CTP, Child-Turcotte-Pugh score.
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