Table 3.

Trends in 28-Day Mortality for Diagnoses Associated With an Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

Diagnosis associated with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage	Adjusted odds ratioa	95% confidence intervals
Change in mortality for an increment of 1 yearb
No specific diagnosis	0.97	0.97–0.98
Gastritis/duodenitis	0.96	0.94–0.98
Mallory–Weiss syndrome	0.96	0.95–0.97
Any peptic ulcer	0.96	0.93–0.99
Gastric ulcer	0.94	0.93–0.95
Duodenal ulcer	0.96	0.95–0.97
Malignancy	0.95	0.95–0.96

NOTE. Linked HES/ONS mortality records are currently provided on a provisional basis. An issue has arisen whereby a small number of mortality records may have been incorrectly rejected. The algorithm that links HES to ONS mortality is currently being amended to rectify this issue, which affects approximately 1000 mortality records or about 0.02% of the total.

^aAdjusted for age, sex, and comorbidity by Charlson index.

^bYear as a continuous variable.