Survival and new-onset morbidity after critical care admission for acute pancreatitis in Scotland: a national electronic healthcare record linkage cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Severe acute pancreatitis (AP) requiring critical care admission (ccAP) impacts negatively on long-term survival.

Objective

To document organ-specific new morbidity and identify risk factors associated with premature mortality after an episode of ccAP.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

Electronic healthcare registries in Scotland.

Participants

The ccAP cohort included 1471 patients admitted to critical care with AP between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 followed up until 31 December 2014. The population cohort included 3450 individuals from the general population of Scotland frequency-matched for age, sex and social deprivation.

Methods

Record linkage of routinely collected electronic health data with population matching.

Primary a

SUBMITTER: Ventre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303604 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature