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Discharge of patients with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleed from the emergency department using an extended Glasgow-Blatchford Score

OBJECTIVE: To use an extended Glasgow-Blatchford Score (GBS) cut-off of ≤1 to aid discharge of patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) from emergency departments. BACKGROUND: The GBS accurately predicts the need for intervention and death in AUGIB, and a cut-off of 0 i...

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Autores principales: Banister, Thomas, Spiking, Josesph, Ayaru, Lakshmana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30233807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2018-000225