Comparison of the ability of the PDD-ICG clearance test, CTP, MELD, and MELD-Na to predict short-term and medium-term mortality in patients with decompensated hepatitis B cirrhosis.

"Conflicts of interest There are no conflicts of interest."

"This study was supported by the Research Fund of Liver function assessment from the Liver Medicine Department of Jieping Wu Medical Foundation (LDWMF-PJ-2011B002); the Scientific Research Fund for Liver Disease and HIV/AIDS (BJYAH-2011-030); Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (No. Z131107002213019; No. Z151100004015066); National Key Subject Construction Project (No. WJWYA-2014-002); Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospital Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support (No. XM201308); Scientific Research Base Construction – Collaborative Innovation Center for the Major Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control (115215); and National Science and Technology Key Project on ‘Major Infectious Diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Treatment’ (2012ZX10002004-006, 2012ZX10004904-003-001, 2013ZX10002002-006)."