Grading of HemorrhageChallenges in Deriving a “Bleeding Score”

• Site specific (skin, epistaxis, mouth, etc.) vs. global (overall)

• Should not be based on physician intervention

• Problems with reliability (reproducibility) between same or different observers

• Problems with validity (the “truth”) – does the score truly reflect the patient’s state?

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