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The presence of multiple bleeding symptoms and/or severe bleeding symptom(s) contribute to a higher score and therefore a greater chance of a bleeding disorder diagnosis. There is bleeding at a critical site (e.g., ICH, retinal haemorrhage, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, intraspinal haemorrhage, haemarthrosis) with no correlating history of trauma or other explanation that adequately accounts for the bleeding. ISTH/SSC bleeding assessment tool: a standardized questionnaire and a proposal for a new bleeding score for inherited bleeding disorders. A standardised bleeding assessment tool, e.g., the International Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Bleeding Assessment Tool (ISTH-BAT), can be used to quantitate bleeding symptoms in order to generate a bleeding score. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the British Society for Haematology's (BSH) guidelines on the management of thrombotic and haemostatic issues in paediatric malignancy. Topics discussed include the methodology for the creation of the guidelines, venous thromboembolism (VTE) and bleeding as serious complications of cancer and its treatment, assessing and reducing the risk of VTE, treatment of various types of VTE, management of thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy and therapy for menstrual suppression.