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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2016 May 5;40(6):1295–1303. doi: 10.1111/acer.13069

Table 1.

Hospitalization Rates for Alcoholic Hepatitis (AH)

Year General population AH population % of all
admits		 % of all
patients		 MELDa
Number of
hospitals		 Number of
admits		 Number of
unique patients		 Number of
hospitals		 Number of
admits		 Number of
unique patients		 Median %
≥22
2000 49 190,160 142,717 12 119 111 0.06 0.08 12 22.1
2001 69 309,695 230,999 18 384 363 0.12 0.16 13 16.1
2002 74 323,235 242,715 22 374 335 0.12 0.14 12 13.5
2003 95 308,864 243,182 27 272 252 0.09 0.10 14 15.5
2004 92 324,409 265,929 25 307 292 0.09 0.11 13 17.5
2005 92 356,894 292,797 34 407 382 0.11 0.13 13 20.3
2006 97 476,557 387,629 39 430 401 0.09 0.10 13 16.9
2007 99 619,741 491,685 39 435 403 0.07 0.08 13 23.9
2008 130 799,312 621,596 52 691 631 0.09 0.10 16 29.2
2009 142 1,511,595 1,228,355 56 916 889 0.06 0.07 14 23.3
2010 151 1,511,058 1,275,312 61 994 952 0.07 0.07 14 24.9
2011 169 1,398,678 1,204,605 54 784 734 0.06 0.06 14 18.1
Total 211 8,130,198 6,184,108 111 6,113 5,603 0.08 0.09 14 21.4
a

Information to calculate Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) was available for 3,425 patients.