Thirty-day mortality after elective and emergency total colectomy in Danish patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this investigation was to assess 30-day mortality among Danish inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) patients and to examine the prognostic impact of hospital total colectomy volume, age, gender and comorbidity.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

The authors compared 30-day survival over the period 1996-2010 among 2889 IBD patients with total colectomy identified in the Danish National Registry of Patients. This registry covers all hospitals in Denmark. Postoperative survival patterns for patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease were compared, using proportional hazard regression. The regression model accounted for the timing of surgery, hospital total colectomy volume, age, gender and comorbidity.

Participants

Patients were enrolled

SUBMITTER: Tottrup A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3323813 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature