External Validation of the New Japanese Severity Score in Turkish Patients With Acute Pancreatitis

Time Trend of Outcomes for Severe Acute Pancreatitis After Publication of Japanese Guidelines Based on a National Administrative Database

“…15 Some previous studies have suggested that this new scoring system allows a superior diagnostic capability for severe acute pancreatitis compared with the previously mentioned conventional scoring systems, enabling patients to receive early treatment. 29,30 In addition, the JPN guidelines recommend transfer of patients who are diagnosed with severe acute pancreatitis to more advanced medical facilities. Therefore, accurate determination of severe acute pancreatitis and rapid transfer of patients with severe acute pancreatitis have been matters of importance for clinicians so that mortality may gradually decrease according to the time course.…”

Validation of the efficacy of the prognostic factor score in the Japanese severity criteria for severe acute pancreatitis: A large multicenter study

“…To the best of our knowledge, this was the first large multicenter study in which the prognostic factor score was compared with another scoring system. 15–17…”

“…According to our results, the ability of the prognostic factor score for predicting mortality was comparable to the APACHE II score despite fewer and simpler evaluation parameters. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first large multicenter study in which the prognostic factor score was compared with another scoring system 15–17 …”

“…To the best of our knowledge, although the validity of the prognostic factor score has been compared with other established scoring systems at a single center in three previous studies, there are no published studies conducted in a multicenter context. 15–17…”

“…The prognostic factor score is designed to allow the assessment of AP severity during the early stages of hospital admission, using physiologic and laboratory data that are readily available in most local hospitals. To the best of our knowledge, although the validity of the prognostic factor score has been compared with other established scoring systems at a single center in three previous studies, there are no published studies conducted in a multicenter context 15–17 …”