The impact of complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy in elderly patients: a review of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database

Hospital procedure volume has been shown to have a major impact on postoperative morbidity and mortality rate after PD in numerous studies. [...]the ACS advocates that patients who meet the criteria for PD have it done at hospitals or centers that perform a high volume of this procedure annually bec...

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Published inThe American surgeon Vol. 80; no. 11; pp. 1175 - 1178
Main Authors Adekoya, Peju, Obirieze, Augustine, Onwugbufor, Michael, Cole, Melissa, Cornwell, 3rd, Edward E, Frederick, Wayne A I
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01.11.2014
Subjects
Age
Aged
Confidence intervals
Female
Gastric Emptying
Humans
Male
Males
Morbidity
Mortality
Multivariate analysis
Older people
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic Fistula - epidemiology
Pancreaticoduodenectomy - adverse effects
Pancreatitis - epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Tumors
United States - epidemiology
United States
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Summary:Hospital procedure volume has been shown to have a major impact on postoperative morbidity and mortality rate after PD in numerous studies. [...]the ACS advocates that patients who meet the criteria for PD have it done at hospitals or centers that perform a high volume of this procedure annually because of the better postoperative outcomes at these high-volume centers compared with low-volume centers. [...]we could not ascertain the pathological tumor stage, grade, or lymph node status of the malignant neoplasm because this information was unavailable in the database.
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ISSN:0003-1348
1555-9823
DOI:10.1177/000313481408001139