Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of transferred and nontransferred adult patients with variceal and nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Baseline characteristics	VUGIB = 28,275			NVUGIB = 781,369
	Nontransferred (n = 24,744)	Transferred (n = 2887)	P value	Nontransferred (n = 684,136)	Transferred (64,969)	P value
Age: mean (95% CI) (years)	57.59 (57.23–57.95)	56.63 (55.53–57.73)	0.07	67.07 (66.97–67.17)	66.66 (66.38–66.94)	<0.01
Female gender, %	35.73	32.7	0.36	45.63	42.99	<0.01
Race, %			< 0.01			< 0.01
White	67.99	81.66		70.63	81.74
Black	7.93	3.55		15.38	10.12
Hispanic	20.38	13.41		10.03	6.13
Asians	3.70	1.38		3.96	2.01
Charlson’s comorbidity index, %			0.64			< 0.01
1	2.34	2.61		26.34	22.17
2	1.55	0.87		20.04	19.33
≥3	96.11	96.52		53.62	58.5
Median household income in the patient’s zip code (quartile), %			< 0.01			< 0.01
1st (0–25th)	31.08	38.05		29.55	38.22
2nd (26th–50th)	27.08	31.68		26.18	33.19
3rd (51st–75th)	24.32	20.18		24.29	18.48
4th (76th–100th)	17.53	10.09		19.98	10.11
Insurance status, %			0.01			< 0.01
Medicare	35.91	39.82		64.51	66.51
Medicaid	26.79	26.79		12.41	12
Private	28.29	25.69		18.45	17.35
Uninsured	9.03	7.71		4.64	4.14
Hospital region, %			< 0.01			< 0.01
Northeast	15.32	14.43		16.77	11.76
Midwest	19.4	31.13		21.02	31.97
South	40.15	34.78		40.34	36.59
West	25.13	19.65		21.87	19.68
Hospital bed size, %			< 0.01			< 0.01
Small	19.77	10.26		21.53	12.99
Medium	32.31	26.26		31.32	25.19
Large	47.92	63.48		47.16	61.82
Hospital location, %			< 0.01			< 0.01
Rural	6.62	6.26		7.78	5.74
Urban	93.38	93.74		92.22	94.26
Thrombocytopenia, %	38.68	42.43	0.2	8.6	11.15	<0.01
Anticoagulant use, %	4.08	5.39	0.05	14.55	14.16	<0.01
End-stage renal disease, %	2.42	2.09	0.8	6.25	6.72	<0.01
Obesity, %	12.87	15.3	0.1	14.12	15.95	<0.01
Coagulopathy, %	2.54	3.13	0.13	8.43	10.86	<0.01

NVUGIB indicates nonvariceal upper GI bleed; VUGIB, nonvariceal upper GI bleed.