Management of acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Current policies and future perspectives

Table 1 Mortality rates in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in various studies

	Czernichow et al[5]	Paspatis et al[4]	Van Leerdam et al[3]	Di Fiore et al[7]	Theocharis et al[1]	Hearnshaw et al[10]
Country	France	Greece	The Netherlands	France	Greece	United Kingdom
Year of publication	2000	2000	2003	2005	2008	2010
No. of patients	2133	353	769	453	353	6750
Mortality rate total (%)	14.3	5.6	13	7.2	6.5	7.4
Varices (%)	22.8	21.4	16	15.2	9	15
Peptic ulcer (%)	13.3	2.6	14	5	4.2	8.7