PMID: 8609747Apr 27, 1996Paper

Selection of patients for early discharge or outpatient care after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. National Audit of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage

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T A RockallT C Northfield

Abstract

Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage is a common medical emergency and hospital admission has usually been regarded as obligatory until the risk of further haemorrhage has receded. This policy means that some patients at low risk stay in hospital for longer than is necessary especially when diagnostic endoscopy is delayed. We attempted to identify patients who had negligible risk of further bleeding or death and for whom early discharge or even outpatient management would be possible with no adverse effect on standards of care. We used a validated risk scoring system based on age (score 0-2), presence of shock (0-2), comorbidity (0-3), diagnosis (0-2), and endoscopic stigmata of recent haemorrhage (0-2); the maximum possible score was 11. We studied patients identified through the UK national Audit of acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage; they had been admitted with upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage to hospitals in the UK during 4 months of 1993. This analysis was based on the 2531 patients from the national audit who underwent endoscopy after an acute admission. 744 (29.4%) of the 2531 patients scored 2 or less on the risk score. Of these patients only 32 (4.3% [95% Cl 3.0-6.0] rebled and only one (0.1% [0.006-0.75] d...Continue Reading

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