Cystic fibrosis‐related liver disease is an independent risk factor for mortality and increased health care resource utilization in hospitalized pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis

Background Cystic fibrosis‐related liver disease (CFLD) is more prevalent in recent decades due to the increasing life expectancy of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). There is paucity of population‐level data on the impact of CFLD on hospital outcomes. Methods We interrogated nonoverlapping years (2003–2016) of the National Inpatient Sample and Kids' Inpatient Database to include all hospitalized patients