摘要 : Background/Aims: Population-based estimates for chronic pancreatitis (CP) are scarce. We determined incident CP hos-pitalization rates and the risk of pancreatitis-related readmis-sions in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Meth... 展开 Background/Aims: Population-based estimates for chronic pancreatitis (CP) are scarce. We determined incident CP hos-pitalization rates and the risk of pancreatitis-related readmis-sions in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Methods: We used Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) dataset to identify all unique White and Black Allegheny County residents with incident hospitalization for CP from years 1996-2005. We noted presence of alcoholism codes (from one year before index hospitalization until last contact) and pancreatitis-related readmissions until the third quarter of 2007. Age-, sex-, and race-adjusted (to US 2000 population) rates/100,000 were calculated. Results: 988 unique County residents with incident hospitalization for CP were identified. 收起