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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Risk scores and clinical judgment in predicting outcomes of UGIB

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 11, pages 399–401 (2014)Cite this article

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Predicting outcomes in upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is important for identifying patients at high risk of morbidity and mortality who would benefit from early intervention. Various scoring systems have been developed to this end, but could clinical judgment replace or complement these risk stratification scores?

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  1. Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30–32 Ngan Shing Street, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Philip W. Y. Chiu

  2. Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30–32 Ngan Shing Street, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Francis K. L. Chan

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P.W.Y.C. has received speaker's honorarium from Olympus and Pentax in the past year. F.K.L.C. has received speaker's honorarium from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Eisai in the past 3 years.

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Chiu, P., Chan, F. Risk scores and clinical judgment in predicting outcomes of UGIB. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 11, 399–401 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2014.98

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