Development and internal validation of the AGATE hybrid score for pre-endoscopic risk stratification in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study
Yavuz Özden, Ömer Yüzügülen, Ferhat Omurca · 2026
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Yavuz Özden, Ömer Yüzügülen, and Ferhat Omurca build a new risk score for patients with bleeding in the upper digestive tract, in a 2026 study. Doctors must judge quickly who is likely to die or need urgent treatment, before a camera exam confirms the source. Five established scores do parts of this job.
Working from 5,000 consecutive cases at one Turkish hospital over five years, the team first graded all five scores head to head. About nine percent of patients died within thirty days, and seven in ten needed a treatment intervention. Two scores led at predicting death, while a third led at predicting intervention. The authors then fitted a hybrid score, AGATE, that blends the strengths of the set for both death and triage. Repeat resampling checked that the hybrid held up inside its own data.
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| CREATOR | Yavuz Özden, Ömer Yüzügülen, Ferhat Omurca |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |