BMJ 1995;311:874 (30 September)

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Incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding in Italy is similar to that in Britain

EDITOR,--I was interested in the paper on the audit of acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in the United Kingdom.1 As current knowledge of the epidemiology of acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage comes from English speaking countries, I wish to draw attention to the results of a prospective, population based survey conducted in the Treviso area (north east Italy) a decade ago.2 Treviso hospital is a general hospital with 1264 beds serving a population of about 270000 inhabitants (232000 aged over 15). During 27 months, from 1 October 1983 to 31 December 1985, 526 emergency admissions for acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage were recorded, while bleeding occurred in 61 patients already in hospital.

The table compares some of the findings of our unselected study with those of T A Rockall and colleagues. There are impressive similarities in the overall incidence of acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage, proportion of cases of bleeding occurring in inpatients, and . . . [Full text of this article]


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Incidence of and mortality from acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in the United Kingdom
T A Rockall, R F A Logan, H B Devlin, and T C Northfield
BMJ 1995 311: 222-226. [Abstract] [Full Text]

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