Revising the MELD Score to Address Sex-Bias in Liver Transplant Prioritization for a German Cohort

Revising the MELD Score to Address Sex-Bias in Liver Transplant Prioritization for a German Cohort

(1) Background: Prioritization of patients for liver transplantation in Germany relies on the MELD (model for end-stage liver disease) scoring system that does not consider the patient’s sex. Many studies have shown that women are disadvantaged by the MELD score. Using a large patient cohort from a...

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Main Authors: Maria Beatriz Walter Costa, Christiane Gärtner, Maria Schmidt, Thomas Berg, Daniel Seehofer, Thorsten Kaiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-06-01
Series:Journal of Personalized Medicine
Subjects:
sex disparity
gender bias
liver transplantation
MELD
MELD 3.0
sex dimorphism
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/13/6/963

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