1/15/09

For patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, how do you decide which patients to send to the floor & which to send to the ICU?

BLEED tool
Kollef MH, et al. BLEED: a classification tool to predict outcomes in patients with
acute upper and lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Crit Care Med. 1997 Jul;25(7):
1125-32.