Trends in characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding to emergency departments in the United States from 2006 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent epidemiologic studies of trends in gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) provided results through 2014 or earlier and assessed only hospitalised patients, excluding patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) who are not hospitalised.

Aims

To provide the first U.S. nationwide epidemiological evaluation of all patients presenting to EDs with GIB METHODS: We used the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample for 2006-2019 to calculate yearly projected incidence of patients presenting to EDs with primary diagnoses of GIB, categorised by location and aetiology. Outcomes were assessed with multivariable analyses.

Results

The age/sex-adjusted incidence for GIB increased from 378.4 to 397.5/100,000 population from 2006 to 2019. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding

SUBMITTER: Zheng NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669230 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature