Challenges to Risk Determination for Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Since the initial description of the Rockall Score (RS) in 1996,1 clinical prediction tools have been used to risk-stratify patients hospitalized with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). Because of the demand for a simple, pre-endoscopic, risk-assessment tool to help providers optimize resource allocation, the Glasgow Blatchford Score (GBS) then was derived to assess which patients with UGIB were likely to require hospital-based treatment before performance of an esophagogastroduodenoscopy.2 The GBS subsequently has been validated in numerous studies to accurately predict the need for endoscopic intervention and mortality.
Source: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research