McNabb-Baltar J, et al. - Within the Health Care Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), researchers evaluated the most common reasons why patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) visit the emergency department (ED) as well as the disposition of ED visit (admission, discharge, death). They also assessed predictors of admission and discharge. They found that diabetes, abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis, cardiac complication, infection, and dehydration were the most frequently associated diagnoses for ED visit. Findings revealed that most patients were admitted following the ED visit. Clostridium difficile colitis was the strongest predictor of admission, although it was a rarely associated diagnosis with an ED visit.