Changing trends in upper gastrointestinal endoscopic findings in Ethiopia: A comparison of eighteen thousand exams across two periods

Figure 1 Flow chart of patient selection. #5.6% had multiple diagnosis or multiple procedures per patient. Duplicates removed to match documentation of the 2016-2024 where only one major diagnosis is recorded per patient on the database for percentage calculation. *23.6% of patients had multiple procedures mostly therapeutic endoscopy for the same diagnosis e.g. repeated stricture dilatation and variceal band ligations. EGD: Esophagoastroduodenoscopy.