Table 2.
Number of hospital admissions, deaths, and case fatality rates three years after admission for ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease in patients who underwent elective, emergency, or no colectomy in Oxford region (1968-96) and England (1998-2000)
| Study region: type of admission | Ulcerative colitis | Crohn's disease | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of admissions | No of deaths at 3 years | Case fatality (95% CI) at 3 years (%) | |||||
| No of admissions | No of deaths at 3 years | Case fatality (95% CI) at 3 years (%) | |||||
| Oxford region: | |||||||
| Elective colectomy | 231 | 14 | 6.1 (3.4 to 10.0) | 345 | 16 | 4.6 (2.7 to 7.4) | |
| Emergency colectomy | 246 | 24 | 9.8 (6.4 to 14.2) | 271 | 25 | 9.2 (6.1 to 13.3) | |
| No colectomy | 2476 | 315 | 12.7 (11.4 to 14.1) | 2336 | 229 | 9.8 (8.6 to 11.1) | |
| All admissions* | 2959 | 355 | 12.0 (10.9 to 13.2) | 2958 | 271 | 9.2 (8.1 to 10.3) | |
| England†: | |||||||
| Elective colectomy | 1198 | 44 | 3.7 (2.7 to 4.9) | 1362 | 45 | 3.3 (2.4 to 4.4) | |
| Emergency colectomy | 785 | 104 | 13.2 (11.0 to 15.8) | 1030 | 102 | 9.9 (8.2 to 11.9) | |
| No colectomy | 6262 | 854 | 13.6 (12.8 to 14.5) | 6910 | 697 | 10.1 (9.4 to 10.8) | |
| All admissions* | 8245 | 1002 | 12.2 (11.5 to 12.9) | 9302 | 844 | 9.1 (8.5 to 9.7) | |
*In the Oxford region it was not recorded whether colectomy was elective or emergency in six people who underwent colectomy for ulcerative colitis and in six who underwent colectomy for Crohn's disease.
†When patients with short inpatient stays of 1-3 days were included in the England study, case fatality rates were similar at three years for elective, emergency, and no colectomy for patients with ulcerative colitis (3.7%, 13.4%, and 11.8%) and with Crohn's disease (3.3%, 9.9%, and 8.2%).