What is your approach to discussions with patients about the MELD score, its use for prognostication of outcomes and decompensation?

l stress to patients the importance of MELD in predicting pre-transplant survival, and a lot of education is undertaken to apprise the patient and their family about the predictiveness of MELD. I also emphasize to patients that small increases or decreases in MELD may indeed not be indicative of a w...