Research Article

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

Table 3

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

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

Number of unintended pancreatic access1.94 (0.966-3.884)0.063Ordinal logistic regression
Time to biliary cannulation (second)-166.2 (-360.212-27.750)0.092Linear regression
Frequency of the use of rescue cannulation method (%)18.7% (13/75)42.3% (29/68)0.29 (0.135-0.627)0.002Logistic regression
Successful biliary cannulation rate (%)98.7% (74/75)74.6% (51/68)25.13 (3.24-194.732)0.002Logistic regression
Incidence of PEP (%)5.3% (4/75)5.8% (4/68)0.92 (0.219-3.830)0.904Logistic regression