For a number of chronic diseases, including cirrhosis, it has been a challenging issue for
physicians to elaborate reliable tools for predicting outcome. The principal goal is to
establish a single score resulting from the sum of a subset of individual variables (predictive
variables), each being supposed to weight on the progression of the disease. Most scores
(including Child–Pugh score) rely on a limited number of variables, which in light of clinical
experience, were felt to affect prognosis and were put together empirically. In contrast, more …