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Practical-Manual-Scores-Algorithms-Haemostasis-Thrombosis

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BleedingISTH bleeding assessment tool for the evaluationof bleeding severityIndicationQuantitative assessment of the severity of bleeding symptoms in patients referredfor the evaluation of a suspected congenital bleeding disorder. Correlation ofclinical symptoms with biological parameters for research purposes.The Bleeding Assessment Tool (BAT) is formed by two components:1. Bleeding questionnaire: a detailed bleeding questionnaire has beenendorsed by the International Society of <strong>Haemostasis</strong> and <strong>Thrombosis</strong> as theresult of experts’ consensus. The bleeding questionnaire allows to accuratelyrecord the worst-ever presentation for each bleeding symptom. The bleedingquestionnaire is available at:http://www.isth.org/resource/resmgr/ssc/isth-ssc_bleeding_assessment.pdfA Web-based version of the questionnaire (ISTH-BATR) has been developedtogether by ISTH and the Rockefeller University, and it is accessible at:https://bh.rockefeller.edu/bat/Users willing to keep their patients’ information stored in the ISTH-BATR arestrongly encouraged to join the ISTH-BATR initiative, which is provided as afreely available service for the scientific community.Please visit http://www.isth.org/members/group.aspx?id=100549 orhttps://bh.rockefeller.edu/ISTH-BATR/ for full information on how to join theinitiative.2. Bleeding score: The severity of symptoms collected with the bleedingquestionnaire is scored and all obtained values are summed together. The finalresult is the Bleeding Score, an index of the overall severity of the bleedingphenotype.46

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