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Glasgow Blatchford Score of limited benefit for low-risk urban patients: a mixed methods study

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS:  Most patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) are hospitalized. Risk-stratifying UGIB with scoring tools may decrease avoidable admissions, thereby reducing the cost of care. We sought to describe how frequently low-risk UGIB patients present to urban emergenc...

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Autores principales: Leiman, David A., Mills, Angela M., Shofer, Frances S., Weber, Andrew T., Leiman, Erin R., Riff, Brian P., Lewis, James D., Mehta, Shivan J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2017
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28971143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-117880