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Critical Care December 2001 Vol 5 No 6 Cook et al. Research article The attributable mortality and length of intensive care unit stay of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients † † † † Deborah J Cook* , Lauren E Griffith , Stephen D Walter , Gordon H Guyatt* , Maureen O Meade*, Daren K Heyland‡ § ¶ , Ann Kirby and Michael Tryba , for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group *Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada †Department of Clinical Epidemiology Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ‡Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada §Department of Critical Care, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada ¶Department of Anesthesia, University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany Correspondence: Deborah J Cook, debcook@mcmaster.ca Received: 31 January 2001 Critical Care 2001, 5:368-375 Revisions requested: 5 September 2001 © 2001 Cook et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Revisions received: 8 September 2001 Accepted: 20 September 2001 Published: 9 October 2001 Abstract Objective To estimate the mortality and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) attributable to clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Design Three strategies were used to estimate the mortality attributable to bleeding in two multicentre databases. The first method matched patients