Fig 1.
Flow sheet of quality approved lab-MELD diagnostic at the University Hospital Leipzig.
Table 1.
Summary of the characteristics of cases that required MELD diagnostic from November 2012 until October 2018 within the university hospital Leipzig.
Fig 2.
Summary of the requested MELD scores and the results of the laboratory medical validation.
Anticoagulation might be indicated within patients with liver diseases. However, INR must be unchanged for valid MELD- diagnostics. In 25 cases, treatment with anticoagulation had influence on the INR and consequently on the MELD score. Therefore, a validation was not possible. * Dialysis status or interval did not fulfill the official criteria. However, no cases of deliberate misreporting were identified.
Table 2.
Table with preanalytical errors leading to not reporting MELD score.