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Schematic diagram of study design. *The total number includes the 26 patients who underwent prior surgical or gastroenterology consultation, or both, and one patient who had a do-not-resuscitate status but was found to have a large bowel obstruction on CT scan and underwent palliative cecostomy the same day.
