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. 2022 Jun 21;22(1):301.
doi: 10.1186/s12876-022-02374-y.

Validation of the new ABC score for predicting 30-day mortality in gastrointestinal bleeding

Marie Christelle Saade  1 , Anthony Kerbage  1 , Suha Jabak  1 , Maha Makki  2 , Kassem Barada  1 , Yasser Shaib  3
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Validation of the new ABC score for predicting 30-day mortality in gastrointestinal bleeding

Marie Christelle Saade et al. BMC Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Background/aim: The ABC score is a new pre-endoscopic scoring system that was recently developed to accurately predict one-month mortality in upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). We aim to validate this new score on a cohort of Lebanese patients treated in a tertiary care center and to compare it to currently existing scores.

Methods: Adult patients admitted to the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) with overt GIB between January 2013 and August 2020 were included. The area under receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curves of the ABC score in predicting 30-day mortality was calculated using the SPSS software. Other optimal existing scores for predicting mortality (the Oakland score for lower GIB, the AIMS-65 and the Rockall scores for upper GIB)s were also assessed and compared to the ABC score.

Results: A total of 310 patients were included in our study. For upper GIB, the ABC score showed good performance in predicting 30-day mortality (AUROC: 0.79), outperforming both the AIMS-65 score (AUROC 0.67, p < 0.001) and the Rockall score (AUROC: 0.62, p < 0.001). For lower GIB, the ABC score also had good performance which was comparable to the Oakland score (AUROC: 0.70 vs 0.56, p = 0.26).

Conclusion: In our cohort of patients, the ABC score demonstrated good performance in predicting 30-day mortality for patients with upper and lower GIB compared to other established risk scores, which may help guide management decisions. This simple and novel score provides valuable prognostic information for patients presenting with GIB and appears to be reproducible in different patient populations.

Keywords: ABC score validation; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Gastrointestinal bleeding outcomes.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Comparison of ABC score with different scores. A. Comparison of ABC, AIMS65 and Rockall scores in prediction of 30-day mortality in upper gastrointestinal bleeding. B. Comparison of ABC and Oakland scores in prediction of 30-day mortality in lower gastrointestinal bleeding
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