Mortality following acute pancreatitis: social deprivation, hospital size and time of admission: record linkage study.

Month of admission and recruitment of junior doctors each August For acute pancreatitis overall, there were indications that mortality was increased for admissions in the months of August (by 21%), August and September (by 20%) and August to October (by 18%) compared with admissions during all other months of the year (Table 2 ; Figure 1 a), although these increases were marginally non-significant.

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There were also indications of increased mortality in large hospitals when compared with small hospitals, for acute pancreatitis overall and for gallstone aetiology but not for alcoholic acute pancreatitis, although these increases in mortality were of quite marginal significance.

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