External Validation of the Oakland Score to Assess Safe Hospital Discharge Among Adult Patients With Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB), which manifests as blood in the colon or anorectum, is a common reason for hospitalization. In most patients, LGIB stops spontaneously with no in-hospital intervention. A risk score that could identify patients at low risk of experiencing adverse outcomes could help improve the triage process and allow greater numbers of patients to receive outpatient management of LGIB.

Objective

To externally validate the Oakland Score, which was previously developed using a score threshold of 8 points to identify patients with LGIB who are at low risk of adverse outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This multicenter prognostic study was conducted in 140 US hospitals in the Hospital Corporation of America network. A total of 4

SUBMITTER: Oakland K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341175 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature