[Hepatology scores].

We are performing a complex medicine in an environment of limited resources. Therefore we need to accurately diagnose, predict and treat. Many scores have been developed with these goals in Hepatology. We choose to limit our attention to those widely used and established which are really decisive in daily clinical management: the Child-Pugh-Turcotte-Score (CTP); the MELD-Score, the simplified criteria for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis, the Mayo-Score for primary biliary cirrhosis and the Lille-Score for alcoholic hepatitis. All scores use clinical features as well as laboratory findings to make these statements. It is likely that these scores will remain in clinical practice for many more years even if new scores based on molecular signatures may be introduced in a near future.