Table 1.
Registry population characteristics.
| AP Patients (n = 1618) | |
|---|---|
| Recurrence | |
| Acute pancreatitis (first known attack) | 1388 (85.8%) |
| Recurrent AP | 230 (14.2%) |
| Age (years) | |
| Median | 59.0 (IQR = 26.0) |
| Mean | 57.7 (SD = 17.1) |
| Length of stay (LoS) | |
| Median | 7.0 (IQR = 6.0) |
| Mean | 8.8 (SD = 7.8) |
| Daily cost of hospitalization (EUR) | |
| Median | 177.2 (IQR = 93.2) |
| Mean | 419.4 (SD = 3475.8) |
| Etiology | |
| Alcoholic | 503 (31.1%) |
| Idiopathic | 253 (15.6%) |
| All other known causes | 862 (53.3%) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 918 (56.7%) |
| Female | 700 (43.3%) |
| Severity | |
| Mild | 821 (50.7%) |
| Moderate to severe | 590 (36.5%) |
| Severe | 207 (12.8%) |
| Morphology | |
| Interstitial | 626 (38.7%) |
| Normal pancreas | 245 (15.1%) |
| APFC | 115 (7.1%) |
| ANC | 50 (3.1%) |
| Pseudocyst | 74 (4.6%) |
| WON | 4 (0.2%) |
| No data | 504 (31.1%) |
| Outcome | |
| Healed/ameliorated | 1329 (82.1%) |
| Discharged at-will | 96 (5.9%) |
| Deceased | 108 (6.7%) |
| Transferred | 74 (4.6%) |
| Stationary | 11 (0.7%) |
| ICU admittance | |
| No | 1449 (89.6%) |
| Yes | 169 (10.4%) |
| Tobacco use | |
| Active | 250 (15.5%) |
| Former (>4 weeks) | 73 (4.5%) |
| Never | 32 (2.0%) |
| No data | 1263 (78.1%) |
| Ward of origin | |
| Gastroenterology | 788 (48.7%) |
| Surgery | 830 (51.3%) |
| Patient area of origin | |
| Urban | 1159 (71.6%) |
| Rural | 445 (27.5%) |
| Foreign | 6 (0.4%) |
| No data | 8 (0.5%) |