Outcome of Holiday and Nonholiday Admission Patients with Acute Peptic Ulcer Bleeding: A Real-World Report from Southern Taiwan

Table 2

Clinical outcomes for all patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

Characteristics	Nonholiday group (𝑛=615)	Holiday group (𝑛=129)	𝑃 value
Time to oral PPI (days)	6.9±9.1	5.3±6.1	0.05*
Rebleeding, 𝑛 (%)	144 (23.4%)	23 (17.8%)	0.167
Surgery, 𝑛 (%)	13 (2.1%)	6 (4.7%)	0.097
Hospital stay (days)	17.4±28.2	12.1±12.5	0.005*
Mortality, 𝑛 (%)	84 (13.7%)	15 (11.6%)	0.776
Bleeding related/other causes	24 (3.9%)/60 (9.8%)	5 (3.9%)/10 (7.7%)
Time to endoscopy (h)	16.7±19.8	12.2±15.3	0.008*
PRBC BT (U)	6.6±9.3	4.8±5.2	0.020*

∗A significant value.
PRBC BT: blood transfusion of packed red blood cell; PPI: proton pump inhibitor.