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Table 5 Overview of bleeding complications of patients treated with NOACs

From: Direct new oral anticoagulants: follow-up, guidelines and bleeding complications in general practice—a survey of Swiss general internal medicine practitioners

Bleeding complications	Absolute number/year	Number/GP/year
Severity
Minor	31	0.58
Life-threatening	13.5	0.25
Location
Epistaxis	17	0.32
Haematoma	12	0.23
Gastrointestinal bleeding	11.5	0.22
Intracranial bleeding	2	0.04
Abdominal bleeding	0	0
Other	2	0.04

Multiple answers possible. n = 53

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