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Prognosis Death and further rebleeding are common, particularly for inpatients a patients with varices a Note: One in seven die in hospital (14%: 95% CI: 13% to 15%) and one in six rebleed (18%: 95% CI: 17% to 19%) a One in fifteen die from further bleeding (6.6%: 95% CI: 5.8% to 7.3%) a One in three inpatients who have a GI bleed die in hospital (33%: 95% CI: 29% to 37%) a A third of patients with bleeding varices fail to stop bleeding b ,  half rebleed in the next year b and a third are dead within 2 months (37%: 95% CI: 30% to 45%) a

Expiry date: July 2003
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