Inhospital and delayed mortality after upper gastrointestinal bleeding: an analysis of risk factors in a prospective series.
Rita Jiménez-RosalesFrancisco Valverde-LópezFrancisco Vadillo-CallesJuan Gabriel Martínez-CaraMercedes López de HierroEduardo Redondo-CerezoPublished in: Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology (2018)
Comorbidities were risk factors for delayed mortality, whereas albumin levels were a protective factor for in-hospital and delayed deaths. Six months mortality is proportionately as important as in-hospital mortality. Half of the delayed deaths might be preventable.