Randomized Trial of Outpatient vs. Inpatient Management of Low-risk Patients With Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

In brief

Patients presenting to the emergency room with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and a Glasgow Blatchford score of zero will be randomly assigned to further care in the inpatient vs. outpatient setting. The hypothesis of this study is that patients who are managed as outpatients will require interventions at a rate not higher than those managed as inpatients and will have lower direct healthcare costs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02005705

Run by

Yale University

People needed

17

Starts

2013-12-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-07-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Blood Urea Nitrogen < 18.2 mg/dl
• Hemoglobin ≥ 13.0 g/dl for men and ≥ 12.0 g/dl for women
• Systolic blood pressure ≥ 110 mm Hg
• Heart rate < 100 beats/min

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to obtain informed consent
• Pregnancy
• History of liver disease
• History of heart failure
• Syncope that is temporally related to ongoing bleeding
• Melena
• Contraindication to proton pump inhibitor use
• Other conditions that necessitate inpatient evaluation.
• Inpatients with new onset of GI bleeding

Where it is running

• Yale New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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