Trends of hospitalisation for patients with liver cirrhosis in Ningxia, China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the changing trends of hospitalisation for patients with liver cirrhosis between 2015 and 2019 by using hospitalisation summary records in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), China.

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Setting

Hospitalisation summary records between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019 from 28 top-ranking hospitals in NHAR were extracted and rigorously analysed.

Participants

During the study period, hospitalisation records referring to liver cirrhosis were included. Records with missing data were excluded. A total of 16 566 patients with liver cirrhosis were included in this study.

Outcome measures

International Classification of Diseases codes, tenth version (ICD-10) and text-diagnoses were used to identify hospitalisa

SUBMITTER: Shi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature