Short-term survival and mortality rates in a retrospective study of colic in 1588 Danish horses

Table 1 Distribution of cases, mortality rates and short-term survival rates from several international studies

Author	Year, Country	Investigation period	No. of colic cases	Distribution of cases		Cases euthanized or dead %				Short-term survival rates (%)
		Investigation period	No. of colic cases	Medical %	Surgical %	Without any treatment	Medical cases	Cases undergoing surgery
						Without any treatment	Medical cases	During surgery	After recovery	Overall	Medically treated cases	Surgically treated cases
[3]	1989, USA	1974-1984	320	41	59	16	6	31	25	59	94	44
[7]	2005, Germany	1990-1997	1431	80	20	*	7	35	16	84	93	49
[5]	2003, The Netherlands	1999-2000	649	64	36	8	15	26	21	69	85	54
[6]	2005, Canada	1992-2002	604	54	46	21	6	26	14	66	94	60
[8]	2009, Israel	2003-2006	208	30	70	6	8**	34		71	92	66
[9]	2009, South Africa	1998-2007	929	60	40	3	7	21	13	79	93	66
UHLA***	2013, Denmark	2000-2009	1588	69	31	10	13	44	14	68	87	42

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