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Identifying risk factors for progression to critical care admission and death among individuals with acute pancreatitis : a record linkage analysis of Scottish healthcare databases

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Date
15/06/2016
Author
Mole, Damian J.
Gungabissoon, Usha
Johnston, Philip
Cochrane, Lynda
Hopkins, Leanne
Wyper, Grant M. A.
Skouras, Christos
Dibben, Chris
Sullivan, Frank
Morris, Andrew
Ward, Hester J. T.
Lawton, Andrew M.
Donnan, Peter T.
Keywords
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
ZA4450 Databases
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
Objectives: Acute pancreatitis (AP) can initiate systemic complications that require support in critical care (CC). Our objective was to use the unified national health record to define the epidemiology of AP in Scotland, with a specific focus on deterministic and prognostic factors for CC admission in AP. Setting: Health boards in Scotland (n=4). Participants: We included all individuals in a retrospective observational cohort with at least one episode of AP (ICD10 code K85) occurring in Scotland from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2012. 3340 individuals were coded as AP. Methods: Data from 16 sources, spanning general practice, community prescribing, Accident and Emergency attendances, hospital in-patient, CC and mortality registries, were linked by a unique patient identifier in a national safe haven. Logistic regression and gamma models were used to define independent predictive factors for severe AP (sAP) requiring CC admission or leading to death. Results: 2053 individuals (61.5% (95% CI 59.8% to 63.2%)) met the definition for true AP (tAP). 368 patients (17.9% of tAP (95% CI 16.2% to 19.6%)) were admitted to CC. Predictors of sAP were pre-existing angina or hypertension, hypocalcaemia and age 30-39 years, if type 2 diabetes mellitus was present. The risk of sAP was lower in patients with multiple previous episodes of AP. In-hospital mortality in tAP was 5.0% (95% CI 4.1% to 5.9%) overall and 21.7% (95% CI 19.9% to 23.5%) in those with tAP necessitating CC admission. Conclusions: National record-linkage analysis of routinely collected data constitutes a powerful resource to model CC admission and prognosticate death during AP. Mortality in patients with AP who require CC admission remains high.
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Mole , D J , Gungabissoon , U , Johnston , P , Cochrane , L , Hopkins , L , Wyper , G M A , Skouras , C , Dibben , C , Sullivan , F , Morris , A , Ward , H J T , Lawton , A M & Donnan , P T 2016 , ' Identifying risk factors for progression to critical care admission and death among individuals with acute pancreatitis : a record linkage analysis of Scottish healthcare databases ' , BMJ Open , vol. 6 , no. 6 , e011474 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011474
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BMJ Open
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011474
ISSN
2044-6055
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Authors, 2016. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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This study was commissioned by GSK through the Farr Institute/SHIP/eDRIS single portal. DJM is a Clinician Scientist Fellow funded by the Health Foundation/Academy of Medical Sciences.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10756

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