MELD score corrected was significantly increased in the patients, which stayed longer than 10 days in the ICU (22.3 ± 7.6 vs. 18.8 ± 7.2, P = 0.015), but had no influence on mortality (Figure 3 ). The odds ratio for longer (> 10 days) ICU stay was 7.0 (confidence interval: 1.7 to 28.4, P = 0.007).