Reasons for excluding patients from category of benign dyspepsia, based on review of 199 random charts
| Reason for exclusion | No of patients |
| Crohn's disease | 8 |
| Postsurgical stomach | 7 |
| NSAID use | 7 |
| Diarrhoea | 4 |
| Weight loss | 3 |
| Haematemesis/melaena | 2 |
| Anaemia | 2 |
| Acute admission | 2 |
| Liver disease | 1 |
| Other | 6 |
| Total | 42 |
NSAID, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.