Resource Utilization Data
Health resources’ baseline values and standard deviations or ranges are reported in Table 2. Data on
length of hospital stay and anesthesia requirements
for surgical procedures were obtained from the University of Alabama Hospital. These data were based
on profiles from 460 subjects admitted with a bleeding peptic ulcer during fiscal year 1999 to 2000
(mean age 60.3 years; SD ± 16.8), 40% male).
We assumed that iv PPI only affected the frequency of rebleeds and consequent hospitalizations
and not the intensity of health resource utilization.
For example, the expected length of inpatient stay
was assumed to be similar whether or not the subject was given iv PPI. This assumption was conserv