Material and Methods:
The National Inpatient Sample database (2016 &2017) was used for data
analysis using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth
Revision codes to identify the patients with the principal diagnosis of
ESRD and LGIB. We assessed the all-cause in-hospital mortality,
morbidity, predictors of mortality, length of hospital stay (LOS), and
total costs between propensity-matched groups of ESRD patients with LGIB
versus ESRD patients.