Development and Validation of a Risk Scoring System for Severe Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5657470	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology	2016	30 Pages	PDF

Abstract

We developed and validated a scoring system for risk of severe LGIB based on 8 factors (NOBLADS score). The system also determined the risk for blood transfusion, longer hospital stay, and intervention. It might be used in decision making regarding intervention and management.

Keywords

severe bleeding NSAID LGIB stigmata of recent hemorrhage MDCT UGIB SRH AUC Los Multidetector computed tomography Upper gastrointestinal bleeding Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage Lower gastrointestinal bleeding nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug length of stay confidence interval area under the receiver operating characteristic curve Predictive model Validation studies

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Development and Validation of a Risk Scoring System for Severe Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Authors

Tomonori Aoki, Naoyoshi Nagata, Takuro Shimbo, Ryota Niikura, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Shiori Moriyasu, Hidetaka Okubo, Katsunori Sekine, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Chizu Yokoi, Mikio Yanase, Junichi Akiyama, Masashi Mizokami, Naomi Uemura,