Research Article

Comparison of Risk Scores for Predicting Adverse Outcomes in Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Table 2

Performance of different risk scores in comparison with the Oakland score in the prediction of adverse outcomes.

RebleedingBlood transfusionHemostatic interventionAny adverse outcome
(25.2%) (18.7%) (28.5%) (47.2%)

Oakland0.67 (0.56-0.78)0.97 (0.94-0.99)0.66 (0.55-0.78)0.78 (0.70-0.87)
Birmingham0.60 (0.48-0.72)0.93 (0.89-0.97)0.70 (0.59-0.80)0.74 (0.65-0.83)
SALGIB0.64 (0.52-0.76)0.95 (0.91-0.99)0.71 (0.61-0.81)0.78 (0.70-0.86)
SHA2PE0.68 (0.57-0.78)0.84 (0.78-0.91)0.66 (0.55-0.77)0.72 (0.63-0.81)
Ramaekers0.69 (0.58-0.80)0.86 (0.80-0.92)0.69 (0.58-0.79)0.76 (0.68-0.85)
CNUH-50.59 (0.50-0.69)0.59 (0.48-0.70)0.58 (0.49-0.67)0.61 (0.54-0.69)

Data are presented as areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve and 95% confidence intervals; values are from the DeLong et al. test.