Early prognostic assessment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding requiring intensive care: comparison of SOFA and bleeding-specific risk scores.
INTRODUCTION Bleeding-specific risk scores are widely used in upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) but were primarily developed in non-critically ill populations. We compared the prognostic performance of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score with bleeding-specific scores in patients with UGIB requirin...