Awareness of Iron Status Evaluation in UGIB (AISE)

Hat Yai Medical Education Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06299007

HYH EC 052-66-01 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

BACKGROUND: Data on the awareness of the need to evaluate iron status and IDA prevalence in acute UGIB are limited.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the rate of evaluation of iron status and prevalence of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and the associated factors in patients with anemia hospitalized for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB).

Enrollment: 867 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients > 18 years of age who were admitted because of acute UGIB and were diagnosed with anemia from UGIB during hospitalization.

Exclusion criteria

• patients who had previously undergone endoscopy at another institution before admission
• patients who had a definite cause of UGIB that was inconclusive
• incomplete data for analysis.

Trial design

867 participants in 1 patient group

Group 1

Description:

Patients who were admitted due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding and had anemia