Original Article

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

Key Points The Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score is recommended by many society guidelines to identify patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in need of emergent upper endoscopy. A Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score cutoff of >2 was not an accurate criterion to triage patients with nonvariceal acute gastrointestinal bleeding for inpatient emergent esophagogastroduodenoscopy in…