History
Dr C.G. Child and Dr J.G. Turcotte of the University of Michigan first proposed the scoring system in 1964. It was modified by Pugh et al in 1972. They replaced Child's criterion of nutritional status with the prothrombin time or INR, and thus eliminated the most subjective part of the score.
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