Loading...
Weekend admission to a hospital has been associated with worse clinical outcomes for various medical conditions. However, data on outcomes for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding admitted on weekends are variable. One recent study from a large tertiary care center (NEJM JW Gastroenterol Mar 2016; [e-pub] and Endosc Int Open 2016; 04:E282) showed no difference in outcomes.
Now, investigators have retrospectively reviewed data from the National Inpatient Sample — which includes hospitals of all sizes, likely with varying degrees of weekend endoscopy and technical support — to examine the impact of weekend admission on 85,928 patients hospitalized with endoscopically documented bleeding gastrointestinal angiodysplasia (GIAD) from 2000 to 20…