Systematic review: the model for end‐stage liver disease – should it replace Child‐Pugh's classification for assessing prognosis in cirrhosis?

Cholongitas et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8caf62c39562886ae2bd2 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02691.x

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