Table 2

Unit and hospital outcome and activity for admissions with severe acute pancreatitis

Outcome

N
Deaths
Percentage

Critical care unit mortality

2,677
818
30.6
Ultimate hospital mortalitya

2,473
1,035
41.9

Activity

N
Median
IQR

Length of stay in days




Critical care unit
Survivors
1,854
3.7
1.6–10.1

Non-survivors
814
3.8
1.1–13.4

All
2,668
3.8
1.4–11.0
Post-dischargea,b
Hospital survivors
1,427
15
9–30

Non-survivors
220
14
5–38

All
1,647
15
8–30

Activity

N
n
Percentage

Transferred out to another intensive care unit

2,677
135
5.0

Readmission within the same hospital stay

2,677
131
4.9

aExcluding readmissions within the same hospital stay. bCritical care unit survivors only. IQR, interquartile range; N, number of non-missing observations.

Harrison et al. Critical Care 2007 11(Suppl 1):S1   doi:10.1186/cc5682