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- Title
Commentary: scoring models for short-term mortality in alcoholic hepatitis.
- Authors
Parker, R.; Ferguson, J.
- Abstract
The article presents the authors' comments on an article on the accuracy of scoring systems to predict outcome and analyze effectiveness of treatment in alcoholic hepatitis (AH). They talk about different scoring systems like discriminant function (DF), and 2 Glasgow alcoholic hepatitis score. They talk about the accuracy of these systems in predicting short-term and medium-term mortality in AH. They also talk about the use of standard meta-analysis for evaluating efficacy of steroids in AH.
- Subjects
HEPATITIS; LIVER diseases; STEROIDS; DISCRIMINANT analysis; META-analysis
- Publication
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 10, p1235
- ISSN
0269-2813
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/apt.12710