title: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: risk scores and clinical judgment in predicting outcomes of UGIB.
abstract: 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?
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Philip W Y
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Francis K L
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment