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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 4 Length of hospital stay and outcome among both studied groups

From: Role of lactate level in predicting admission need to intensive care unit and short term outcomes in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding

 

Blood lactate level

P value

Normal (n = 100)

Elevated (n = 200)

Hospital stay (days)

3.96 ± 1.74

7.38 ± 2.05

 < 0.001

Blood transfusion

72 (72%)

196 (98%)

 < 0.001

ICU admission

67 (67%)

190 (95%)

 < 0.001

Mortality

3 (3%)

18 (9%)

0.04

  1. Data expressed as number (percentage), or mean ± SD. P-value considered significant if < 0.05. ICU intensive care unit
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