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Volume 331:51-53 July 7, 1994 Number 1
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Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Critically Ill Patients

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To the Editor: In a well-designed study Cook et al. (Feb. 10 issue)1 purport to identify risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients. "Critically ill patients" is not rigorously defined, but one may infer from the study design that they included patients admitted to a medical-surgical intensive care unit at one of the four study hospitals. However, of the 2828 patients eligible for the study, nearly half (48.5 percent) were admitted because of cardiovascular surgery. Such patients typically have a brief course in the intensive care unit and a low risk of complications. Relatively few patients were admitted . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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