Clinical Performance of Prediction Rules and Nasogastric Lavage for the Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Retrospective Observational Study

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Scoring algorithms</td><td class="align_center">Objective clinical parameters</td><td class="align_center">Other clinical factors</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Blatchford (GBS)</td><td class="align_center">Blood urea nitrogen, hemoglobin level, systolic blood pressure, heart rate</td><td class="align_center">Presentation with melena or syncope Presence of liver disease or heart failure</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Clinical Rockall</td><td class="align_center">Age, systolic blood pressure, heart rate</td><td class="align_center">Presence of heart failure, ischemic heart disease, or any major comorbidity</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Adamopoulos</td><td class="align_center">Heart rate, systolic blood pressure, hemoglobin level, WBC.</td><td class="align_center">Presence of fresh blood in NGT aspirate</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Tamarro</td><td class="align_center">Heart rate, systolic blood pressure, hemoglobin level</td><td class="align_center">General condition (subjective assessment of comorbidities)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Clinical parameters used in scoring algorithms.

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Table 1: Clinical Performance of Prediction Rules and Nasogastric Lavage for the Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Retrospective Observational Study 

Table 1 | Clinical Performance of Prediction Rules and Nasogastric Lavage for the Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Retrospective Observational Study 