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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Hematol. 2012 Sep;19(5):406–412. doi: 10.1097/MOH.0b013e32835673ab

Table 1.

Alignment of Bleeding Assessment Instruments and Their Major Goal(s)

Instruments Goals

  • Vicenza Bleeding Questionnaire and Modifications (8–11)

  • ISTH/SSC Bleeding Assessment Tool (12)

  • Rockefeller Bleeding History Questionnaire (13)

 To Diagnose Inherited or Acquired Bleeding Disorders and to Predict the Risk of Future Bleeding

  • Buchanan Grading System (14)

  • UK Clinical Severity Classification System (15)

  • ITP Bleeding Scale (16)

  • WHO Bleeding Scale (17)

  • ISTH ITP Working Group Bleeding Assessment Tool (publication in preparation)

 To Assess Bleeding Associated with Immune Thrombocytopenia and Thrombopoietic Stimulating Agents in Preventing Bleeding

  • Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) criteria

  • Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) scale

  • Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC)

  • CURE criteria

  • ACUITY, HORIZONS criteria

  • CURRENT-OASIS7

  • STEEPLE criteria

  • PLATO criteria

  • GRACE criteria

  • REPLACE-2/ISAR-REACT-3 criteria

  • ESSENCE criteria

  • Amiani et al. criteria

 To Assess Bleeding Associated with Percutaneous Coronary Interventions [Reviewed in reference (18)]

  • mOBRI

  • RIETE

  • HAS-BLED

  • CHA2DS2-VASc

  • HEMOR2RHAGES

 To Predict the Risk of Bleeding Associated with Chronic Oral Anticoagulant Therapy [Reviewed in reference (19)]

  • Papworth Bleeding Risk Score (BriSC)(13;20)

 To Predict the Risk of Bleeding with Cardiac Bypass Surgery (21)

  • Rockefeller Bleeding History Questionnaire (13)

 To Correlate Phenotypic, Genotypic, and Environment Information