NCT06409988

Safe Discharge in Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

External Validation of the SHA2PE Score and Its Comparison to the Oakland Score for the Prediction of Safe Discharge in Patients With Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 398 (actual)
• Sponsor: Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The increasing incidence in lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) leads to a rise in hospital admission. Many LGBI are self-limiting thus the several scores to identify low risk patients suited to outpatient care have been described. We aim to compare two of this scores (Oakland score and SHA2PE score) in terms of performace to predict "safe discharge" from the emergency department.

Detailed description

The growing incidence of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is leading to a rise in hospital admissions even though most LGIB episodes are self-limiting. The Oakland and SHA2PE scores were designed to identify patients best suited to outpatient care. Our aim is to validate the SHA2PE score and compare both of these scores in terms of predictiveness of safe discharge. We conducted a retrospective observational study of LGIB patients admitted to our hospital between June 2014-June 2019. During this period, data from all LGIB episodes admitted from the ED were collected in an electronic anonymized database created specifically for this study. If any of the principal variables or critical information was missing, the patient was excluded from the study.

Conditions

• Lower GI Bleeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Safe discharge	There was no specific intervention, we only aimed to see if those admitted patients could have been safely dicharged from the emergency department.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2020-12-30
• First posted: 2024-05-10
• Last updated: 2024-05-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain