4. Results
In all 38 departments of internal medicine and geriatric wards
participated in the REPOSI study and recruited 1332 patients; 111
were excluded because of lack of discharge information (they were
transferred to another hospital ward not participating in the study)
and 66 because they died in hospital. Therefore 1155 patients were
eligible for this analysis.
Drugs for GERD or peptic ulcer were given to 466 patients (40.3%)
at admission and 647 (56.0%) at discharge. The mean number of drugs
used and diagnoses made were higher in patients given drugs for
peptic ulcer or GERD than in untreated patients (Table 1). PPI were the