Development and validation of a risk prediction score for the severity of acute hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis in Chinese patients

Table 3 Comparison of diagnostic performance for predicting severe acute pancreatitis between the AAP and other existing clinical scores

Variables	ΔAUC	95%CI	Z statistic	P value
AAP-APACHE II	0.122	0.057-0.187	3.661	0.000
AAP-BISAP	0.076	0.007-0.198	3.839	0.000
AAP-MCTSI	0.098	0.027-0.305	3.111	0.002
AAP-Ranson	0.104	0.048-0.159	3.670	0.000
AAP-EASY	0.122	0.056-0.188	3.606	0.000

AAP: Our risk prediction score referred to as AAP; EASY: EASY prediction score; ΔAUC: Difference of areas under curve between AAP and other clinical scores; SE: Standard error; CI: Confidence interval; SAP: Severe acute pancreatitis.