As an example, using the prevalence of SAP in acute pancreatitis (9.7% in the derivation cohort), a patient with acute pancreatitis admitted to hospital within 1 day after the onset of abdominal pain, with SIRS, a serum albumin level of 33 g/L, BUN level of 26 mg/dL and no pleural effusion would generate a score of 6 points. Here, ALB is linked to acute pancreatitis.