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Revision as of 20:10, 9 December 2019
Description
This updated version of the ‘MELD Score for Liver Disease’ accounts for the patient’s sodium level to better categorize patients with cirrhosis to predicted mortality rates.
Calculator Search/Filter Keywords
At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching. The following calculator keywords are delivered by default for the MELD Score for Liver Disease (w/Na) calculator:
Specialties
- Critical Care
- Gastroenterology
- Hepatology
- Internal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Surgery
Anatomical Systems
- Digestive
- Endocrine
- Lymphatic
Calculator Inputs
Input | Mapping Type | Description |
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Serum Bilirubin | Results | Serum Bilirubin |
INR | Results | INR |
Serum Creatinine | Results | Serum Creatinine |
Dialysis Status | Manual Input | Patient has had dialysis at least twice in the past week |
Sodium | Results | Sodium |
Calculator Outputs
Output | Mapping Type | Description |
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MELD Score | Result | Patient’s MELD Score |
3 Month Mortality rate | Result | The 3 month mortality rate for patients with similar MELD scores |