ObjectiveTo establish a prediction model of in-hospital mortality risk for patients with severe pancreatitis (SP) based on the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-Ⅳ. MethodsSP patients were screened from the MIMIC-Ⅳ,and their clinical data were extracted. Patients were assigned to survival group or death group according to whether patients were dead or not during hospitalization, and the clinical data were compared between the survival group and the death group. SP patients were randomly assigned to training set or validation set according to the ratio of 8 ∶2. On the basis of data in the training set, the Logistic regression model and support vector machine (SVM) algorithm were used to establish a prediction model of in-hospital mortality risk for SP patients; furthermore, based on data in the validation set, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was drawn to evaluate predictive efficiency of the two models. ResultsThere were statistically significant differences in age, red blood cell distribution width (RDW),anion gap,and HDL-C between the death group and the survival group (P<0.05). The results of Logistic regression analysis revealed that age, RDW, and anion gap were the independent risk factors for in-hospital mortality in SP patients, and HDL-C was the independent protective factor for in-hospital mortality in SP patients (P<0.05). The regression equation for in-hospital mortality risk prediction model in SP patients was P=ea1+ea, among which P was the probability of in-hospital mortality in SP patients, and e was the natural constant,a=-6.264+0.033×age+0.061×RDW+0.091×anion gap-0.019×HDL-C.When the kernel function was Linear function, the slack variable was 0.1, and the error-tolerant rate was 0.42, SVM model exerted the highest accuracy for predicting SP patients′ in-hospital mortality. The evaluation results of efficiency of the two models for predicting patients′ in-hospital mortality revealed that accuracy rate, sensitivity, and area under the ROC curve of SVM model for predicting SP patients′ in-hospital mortality were higher or larger than those of Logistic regression model, but no statistically significant difference was found (P>0.05), whereas specificity was comparable to that of Logistic regression model. ConclusionAge, RDW,and anion gap are the independent risk factors for in-hospital mortality in SP patients,and HDL-C is the independent protective factor for SP patients′ in-hospital mortality. The SVM model and Logistic regression model established based on the aforementioned factors both can effectively predict in-hospital mortality risk for SP patients, whereas the SVM model exhibits slightly higher accuracy rate and sensitivity, and superior predictive efficiency.