What changed
Validated the laboratory-variable survival model in four independent liver-disease cohorts.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact nine-author 2001 study and its reported cohorts and endpoints. It is a prognostic model, not a treatment effect, and later allocation policies, recalibrations and MELD variants remain distinct.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact nine-author 2001 study and its reported cohorts and endpoints. It is a prognostic model, not a treatment effect, and later allocation policies, recalibrations and MELD variants remain distinct.
Contributors
- Patrick S. Kamath · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Russell H. Wiesner · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Michael Malinchoc · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Walter Kremers · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Terry M. Therneau · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Catherine L. Kosberg · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Gennaro D’Amico · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- E. Rolland Dickson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- W. Ray Kim · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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