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Meta-analysis B: rates of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients treated with sucralfate or placebo (one randomised study)
| Reference | Bleeding rate
|
Odds ratio (95% CI) | Definition of bleeding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | Placebo | |||
| Ruiz-Santana et al, 199111 | 1/24 (4%) | 1/30 (3%) | 1.26 (0.12 to 12.9) | Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding |
