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Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Recent findings from R.J. Atkinson and co-authors highlight research in gastrointestinal bleeding

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, May 29th, 2008

"Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage remains a significant cause of hospital admission, with mortality rates up to 14%. In order to standardise and improve care, various scoring systems (e.g," scientists writing in the journal Best Practice & Research in Clinical Gastroenterology report.

"Rockall, Blatchford and Baylor) have been developed to identify those individuals at high risk of requiring treatment (transfusion, endoscopic or surgical intervention) or of re-bleeding or death. There is also increasing interest in the utilisation of scoring systems to identify individuals at low risk of complications, as these may be discharged early, possibly with outpatient...

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