Today, I review, link to, and excerpt from MELD (Model For End-Stage Liver Disease) Score from Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network.
All that follows is from the above resource.
MELD calculator
The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) is a calculated formula used to assign priority to most liver transplant candidates age 12 and older based upon their medical urgency.
Some updates were made effective July 13, 2023, to data used in the MELD calculation formula. These updates were part of an initiative to better predict the risk of waitlist mortality for liver transplant candidates.
Learn About MELD (a six minute video): How the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease is calculated and used.
User guide for MELD and PELD calculators
Learn About MELD (a six minute video): How the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease is calculated and used.
PELD Calculator (a six minute video): How the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease is calculated and used.
Overview
The model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) and pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) calculators allow users to enter hypothetical or actual parameters and calculate a MELD or PELD score for an individual patient.
The MELD and PELD calculators provided on this site use the specific formulas approved by the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors and used for the allocation of livers by the OPTN match system.
