Table 7. Comparison of the prognostic ability among 4 BCLC-, 4 CLIP- and 4 TIS-based staging systems.

N = 2654	Distribution ofpatients (%)	Homogeneity(Likelihood ratio χ2)	Akaikeinformation criterion
BCLC models (0/A/B/C/D)
Original	9/22/14/42/14	492.449	13695.982
Modified A	2/25/13/46/14	500.669	13687.762
Modified B	2/25/17/42/14	518.292	13670.139
Modified C	2/28/14/42/14	502.622	13685.809
CLIP models [0/1/2/3/4/5/6(/7)]
Original	27/26/16/12/12/6/2	710.818	13477.613
Modified A	8/24/24/15/12/11/6/2	762.847	13425.584
Modified B	8/24/25/15/11/11/7	714.275	13474.156
Modified C	8/28/25/14/13/12/2	622.205	13566.226
TIS models [0/1/2/3/4/5/6(/7)]
Original	35/22/12/12/11/6/1	685.371	13503.060
Modified A	9/30/20/12/12/10/6/1	745.476	13442.955
Modified B	9/30/21/11/12/11/7	691.347	13497.084
Modified C	9/36/19/10/13/12/1	595.013	13593.418

Abbreviations: BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; CLIP, Cancer of the Liver Italian Program; TIS, Taipei Integrated Scoring.