epocrates Featured Calculator: HAS-BLED Bleeding Risk Score

HAS-BLED is a scoring system used to estimate the 1-year risk for major bleeding in patients taking anticoagulants for afib. The score takes into account hypertension (H), abnormal renal/hepatic function (A), stroke (S), bleeding (B), labile INR (L), older age (>65 years) (E), and drugs/alcohol (e.g., antiplatelets) (D), which are each given 1 point. Bleeding risk is significantly higher for scores ≥3. Tap now to see the HAS-BLED Calculator.

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