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These methods were applied to patients with primary biliary cirrhosis undergoing liver transplantation using a prognostic model from a historic cohort who did not undergo transplantation. The survival gain over 4 years from transplantation was estimated.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Ignoring the uncertainty in the prognostic model, the estimated survival benefit of liver transplantation was 16.7 months (95 percent confidence interval [CI], 13.5 to 20.1), and was statistically significant (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>&lt;.001). After adjusting for model uncertainty using the standard errors of the regression coefficients, the estimated survival benefit was 17.5 months (95 percent CI, \u22123.9 to 38.5) and was no longer statistically significant. An additional adjustment for the correlation between regression coefficients widened the 95 percent confidence interval slightly: the estimated survival benefit was 17.0 months (95 percent CI: \u22124.6 to 38.6).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> It is important that the precision of regression coefficients is available for users of published prognostic models. 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