Table 5. Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) analysis of each score for variceal hemorrhage.

p-value is significant for <0.05

PALBI: Platelet-Albumin-Bilirubin Score, CTP: Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score, MELD-Na: Model of End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Score, AUC: Area under the curve, PPV: Positive predictive value, NPV: Negative predictive value.

Score	Cut off	AUC	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	PPV	NPV	p-value
CTP	7.50	0.61	58.0	51.2	0.68	0.41	0.026
MELD-Na	9.50	0.46	65.7	24.7	0.66	0.43	0.328
PALBI	-2.50	0.56	81.4	25.0	0.61	0.30	0.165