M1139 Nationwide Referral Patterns to Specialized Medical Centers for the Inpatient Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Nationwide patterns of hospitalizations

Nationwide patterns of hospitalizations to centers with high volume of admissions for inflammatory bowel disease and their impact on mortality

✍ Geoffrey C. Nguyen; A. Hillary Steinhart 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 210 KB

## Background: We sought to determine patterns of hospitalizations for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to centers that regularly admit high volumes of IBD patients and whether they impacted health outcomes. ## Methods: We queried US hospital discharges in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to ident