Generic and disease-specific health related quality of life in non-cirrhotic, cirrhotic and transplanted liver patients: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Classification of disease stage groups and the transplanted group based on reported clinical characteristics.

	Reported cirrhosis	Reported splenomegaly	Reported ascites	Reported variceal bleeding	Reported ascites and/or variceal bleeding *in the year 2000*	Transplant History
NC	No	No	No	No	No	No
CC	Yes	-	-	-	No	No
CC	-	Yes	-	-	No	No
CC	-	-	Yes	-	No	No
CC	-	-	-	Yes	No	No
DC	-	-	-	-	Yes	No
LTX	-	-	-	-	-	Yes

NC = Non-Cirrhosis, CC = Compensated Cirrhosis, DC = Decompensated Cirrhosis, LTX = Liver transplanted. Legend clinical characteristics: No: Absence of the clinical characteristic is an absolute condition for the concerning disease stage group or transplant group. Yes: Presence of the clinical characteristic is an absolute condition for the concerning disease stage group or transplant group. - : Presence or absence of clinical characteristic is no absolute condition.

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