• Southern medical journal · Nov 2022

    A Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score of >2 Is a Poor Predictor of Endoscopic Intervention in Nonvariceal Upper GI Bleeding.

    • Kanchana Myneedu, Mahesh Gajendran, Alberto Contreras, Alejandro Robles, and Antonio Mendoza Ladd.
    • From Shrewsbury Internal Medicine, UMass Memorial Health, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the Division of Infectious Disease, University of South Florida, Tampa, the Division of Gastroenterology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, and the Department of Internal Medicine. Division of Gastroenterology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
    • South. Med. J. 2022 Nov 1; 115 (11): 833837833-837.

    ObjectivesRecent data show that a Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score (GBS) >2 does not identify patients with upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding who benefit from inpatient esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). This study aimed to determine the rate of endoscopic hemostatic interventions (HI) in patients with nonvariceal acute GI bleeding (NVAUGIB) admitted with a GBS >2. Secondary aims included comparison of clinical outcomes in patients with and without HI and cost of nontherapeutic EGDs.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective review of medical records of patients admitted to a referral hospital for NVAUGIB from January 2015 to December 2017. Mortality, blood transfusion rates, length of stay, length of intensive care unit stay, and cost of a nontherapeutic EGD were outcomes of interest. Patients 18 years of age and older of both sexes were included. The accuracy of the GBS >2 cutoff was determined using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.ResultsA total of 357 patients were included and only 58 (16.2%) required HI. The area under the curve for GBS >2 as a predictor of HI was 0.57. The performance of HI did not influence mortality (P = 0.33), blood transfusion rates (P = 0.51), length of stay (P = 0.2), or length of intensive care unit stay (P = 0.36). The estimated cost of performing nontherapeutic EGD was approximately $855,000 for the 299 patients who did not need HI.ConclusionsA GBS cutoff of >2 is not an accurate criterion to triage patients with NVAUGIB for inpatient emergent EGD. More clinically meaningful and cost-effective methods to triage these patients are necessary.

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