Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the time to emergency endoscopy and clinical outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Takumi Komatsu,
Yoshinori Sato,
Yuichiro Kuroki
et al.
Abstract:ObjectivesTo investigate endoscopic management and clinical outcomes in patients with non‐variceal upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed the data of 332 patients with non‐variceal upper GI bleeding who underwent emergency upper GI endoscopy at three hospitals during the pandemic (April 2020–June 2021) and before the pandemic (January 2019–March 2020). The number of emergency upper GI endoscopies, time from hospital arrival to endosc… Show more
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