This large cohort of patients on warfarin who experienced a GI bleed found 59% resumed warfarin within 90 days. Those that resumed were significantly less likely to experience thrombosis (hazard ratio 0.05, CI 0.01-0.58) or death (hazard ratio 0.31, CI 0.15-0.62), and did not have a higher risk of bleeding, compared to those that did not resume warfarin within 90 days. This study suggests that early re-initiation of warfarin after a GI bleed results in better clinical outcomes that waiting for 90 days or later (abstract)
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