Suspected lower gastrointestinal bleeding in emergency departments, from bleeding symptoms to diagnosis

Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Apr;37(4):772-774. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2018.08.053. Epub 2018 Aug 21.

¹ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Initiatives de Recherche aux Urgences, SFMU, French Society of Emergency Medicine, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France; INSERM U1153, Statistic and Epidemiologic Research Center Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS), METHODS Team, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris, France.
³ INSERM U1153, Statistic and Epidemiologic Research Center Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS), ECSTRA Team, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France.
⁴ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France.
⁵ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁶ Initiatives de Recherche aux Urgences, SFMU, French Society of Emergency Medicine, France; Emergency Department, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁷ Initiatives de Recherche aux Urgences, SFMU, French Society of Emergency Medicine, France; Emergency department, Hôpital Gabriel-Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
⁸ Initiatives de Recherche aux Urgences, SFMU, French Society of Emergency Medicine, France.

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Keywords: Emergency department; Endoscopy; Epidemiology; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Hematochezia.

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