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Mortality with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation: effects of time and NSAID use
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Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more recent data is needed. Better treatment is likely to have reduced mortality. An estimate of mortality is helpful in explaining to patients the risks of therapy, especially with NSAIDs.
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Methods: A systematic review of studies published before 1997,...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- BioMed Central
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- BMC Gastroenterology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 9
- Article number:
- 41
- Publication date:
- 2009-06-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2009-06-05
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1471-230X
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English
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pubs:243501
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- Straube et al
- Copyright date:
- 2009
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- © 2009 Straube et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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