Glasgow-Blatschford Score Validation in Digestive Hemorrhage

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

Treatments: Procedure: Endoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01029626

09-091

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to validate the Glasgow-Blatchford score for the stratification of patients with upper gastro-intestinal hemorrhage. This score is easy to calculate. It is mainly based on the hemoglobin, blood pressure and blood urea. if the score is zero, the bleeding is very low risk and the gastrointestinal endoscopy may be delayed and performed as an outpatient.

Enrollment: 208 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be admitted in the university hospital for a gastrointestinal hemorrhage (vomiting of red or black blood or melena)

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18
• Pregnancy
• Hemorrhage during hospitalisation
• red rectal bleeding
• No consent signed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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208 participants in 1 patient group

Endoscopy

Other group

Description:

If the Glasgow-Blatchford score is zero, the endoscopy is delayed as an outpatient

Treatment:

Procedure: Endoscopy