Research Article

Does Preendoscopy Rockall Score Safely Identify Low Risk Patients following Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage?

Table 1


Clinical feature

Presenting symptomMelaena299 (77.1%)
Fresh haematemesis67 (17.3%)
Coffee ground haematemesis 96 (24.7%)
Unspecified haematemesis 14 (3.6%)

Syncope 46 (11.9%)

Symptom duration <24 hours205 (52.8%)
1–7 days 120 (30.9%)
>7 days 63 (16.2%)

Admission medicationPPI175 (45.1%)
NSAID (including aspirin)286 (73.7%)
Anticoagulant 55 (14.1%) (50  warfarin)