Hospitalization for epistaxis: a population-based healthcare research study in Thuringia, Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Epistaxis is the most common ENT emergency. The aim was to determine population-based data on severe epistaxis needing inpatient treatment.

Methods

Retrospective population-based cohort study in the federal state Thuringia in 2016 performed on all 840 inpatients treated for epistaxis in otolaryngology departments (60.1% male, median age: 73 years; 63.9% under anticoagulation). The association between patients' and treatment characteristics and longer inpatient stay (≥ 4 days) as well as readmission for recurrent epistaxis was analyzed using univariable and multivariable statistics.

Results

The overall incidence of epistaxis needing inpatient treatment was higher for men (42 per 100,000) than for women (28 per 100,000). The highest incidence was reached for men

SUBMITTER: Kallenbach M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7198635 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature