Consensus Recommendations for Managing Patients with Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

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Consensus Recommendations for Managing Patients with Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

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Figure. The adopted process of guideline development (16) . *See (Table 1).

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Table 1. Categorization of Evidence, Classification of Recommendations, and Voting Schema

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Table 2. Summary of Consensus Recommendations for the Management of Patients with Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

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Appendix Table 1. Summary of Statistically Significant Predictors of Persistent or Recurrent Bleeding as Assessed by Multivariate Analyses in Studies within the Past 10 Years

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Appendix Table 2. Summary of Statistically Significant Predictors of Death as Assessed by Multivariate Analyses in Studies within the Past 10 Years

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Appendix Table 3. Meta-Analyses of Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding