Fig. 4

Lengths of hospital stay. Columns indicate means and bars represent the respective standard deviations. The total as well as propensity score matched (psm) patient cohorts without [GERM(-)] and with [GERM(+)] pathogen detection during acute pancreatitis therapy were subdivided regarding the severity of acute pancreatitis into patients with mild or moderate to severe (mod/sev) diseases concerning the revised Atlanta classification [2]. a, c depict the length of stay on intensive care unit (ICU) or total length of in-hospital stay of the total, unmatched patient cohorts. b, d depict the length of stay on intensive care unit (ICU) or total length of in-hospital stay of the propensity score matched patient cohorts. p values of multigroup comparisons < 0.05 are depicted