Pre-endoscopic Rockall and Blatchford Scores to identify which emergency department patients with suspected gastrointestinal bleed do not need endoscopic hemostasis

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1083-1087

  Meltzer, Andrew C ^a   Burnett, Sarah ^a   Pinchbeck, Carrie ^a   Brown, Angela L ^b   Choudhri, Tina ^a   Yadav, Kabir ^a   Fleischer, David E ^c   Pines, Jesse M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision rules; Emergency Department; endoscopy; gastrointestinal; hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLATCHFORD SCORE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRE ENDOSCOPIC ROCKALL SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84878524544     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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