What is it about?
Validation of a popular bleeding risk score to differentiate patients for use of high-cost versus lower-cost prevention of bleeding during PCI.
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Why is it important?
Clinical tools that are perceived to be valid yet are potentially inaccurate leads to wasted resources and less than optimal outcomes. For the bleeding risk score, the outcomes include increased and/or unnecessary bleeding for subsets of patients.
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This page is a summary of: Validity of a PCI Bleeding Risk Score in patient subsets stratified for body mass index, Open Heart, February 2015, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2014-000088.
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