Research Article

Impact of a Novel Oblique-Tip Papillotome for Biliary Cannulation during ERCP: A Nonrandomized Coarsened Exact Matching Study

Table 5

Comparison of cannulation outcomes in the OT-WGC and OT-CGC groups by coarsened exact matching.

OT-WGC ()OT-CGC ()OR or coefficient (95% CI)Statistical method

Number of unintended pancreatic access events0.514 (0.274-0.165)0.038Ordinal logistic regression
Biliary cannulation time (seconds)113.8 (-58.657-286.356)0.194Linear regression
Frequency of rescue cannulation (%)22.4% (15/67)24.1% (18/74)0.89 (0.406-1.949)0.77Logistic regression
Successful biliary cannulation rate (%)98.5% (66/67)96.8% (72/74)2.21 (0.209-23.305)0.51Logistic regression
Incidence of PEP (%)3% (2/67)8.7% (6/74)0.31 (0.062-1.597)0.163Logistic regression