Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in Scotland 2000-2010: Improved outcomes but a significant weekend effect

Table 2 Trends in number of hospital admissions and outcome for patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in Scotland

	2000/1	2001/2	2002/3	2003/4	2004/5	2005/6	2006/7	2007/8	2008/9	2009/10
Number of admissions1	7674	7717	7365	7106	7145	7236	7316	7363	7397	7717
Median length of stay (d)	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Mean length of stay (d)	9.2	9.8	10.0	9.8	10.1	9.6	9.2	8.2	8.6	7.9
Total number of patients	6973	7002	6659	6480	6508	6582	6618	6634	6690	6813
Number of deaths	718	744	703	705	663	646	650	625	623	599
30-d mortality (%)2	10.3	10.6	10.6	10.9	10.2	9.8	9.8	9.4	9.3	8.8

¹Same patient may be counted more than once if they had more than one upper gastrointestinal bleeding admission during the year;

²Patient are counted only once during each year but may be counted more than once across all 10 years.