摘要
Treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often requires specialized care.While much of IBD care has shifted to the outpatient setting, hospitalizationsremain a major site of healthcare utilization and a sizable proportion of patientswith inflammatory bowel disease require hospitalization or surgery during theirlifetime. In this review, we approach IBD care from the population-level with aspecific focus on hospitalization for IBD, including the shifts from inpatient tooutpatient care, the balance of emergency and elective hospitalizations, regionalizationof specialty IBD care, and contribution of surgery and endoscopy tohospitalized care.
