A head to head comparison of oral vs intravenous omeprazole for patients with bleeding peptic ulcers with a clean base, flat spots and adherent clots

Table 2 Clinical outcomes of the study population

Outcome	Group 1(iv)(n = 112)	Group 2(po)(n = 99)	Total(n = 211)	P
Inpatient basis
Recovery [n (%)]	107 (95.5)	95 (96.0)	202 (95.7)	0.945
Re-bleeding [n (%)]	5 (4.5)	4 (4.0)	9 (4.3)	0.8792
Surgery requirement [n (%)]	3 (2.7)	2 (2.0)	5 (2.4)	0.7732
Hospital stay (days, mean) Total ≤ 5 d (n) > 5 d (n)	4.6 ± 1.6 52 60	4.5 ± 2.6 55 44	4.5 ± 2.8 107 104	0.7102 0.093
Blood transfusion (units) Total (mean) ≤ 3 units (n) > 3 units (n)	1.9 ± 1.1 85 27	2.1 ± 1.7 74 25	2.0 ± 1.6 159 52	0.3501 0.847 0.610
Death [n (%)]	2 (1.8)	2 (2.0)	4 (1.9)	0.9812
Outpatient basis
Re-bleeding [n (%)]	2 (1.8)	1 (1.0)	3 (1.4)	0.7662
Death [n (%)]	1 (0.8)	0 (0.0)	1 (0.4)	0.8872
Overall
Re-bleeding [n (%)]	7 (6.2)	5 (5.0)	12 (5.6%)	0.7452
Death [n (%)]	3 (2.6)	2 (2.0)	5 (2.3)	0.9802

¹Student’s t test;

²Fisher’s exact test.