Assessing the impact of a fistula after a pancreaticoduodenectomy using the Post‐operative Morbidity Index

The Post-operative Morbidity Index (PMI) is a quantitative utility measure of a complication burden created by severity weighting. The Fistula Risk Score (FRS) is a validated model that predicts whether a patient will develop a post-operative pancreatic fistula (POPF). These novel tools might provide further discrimination of the ISGPF grading system.From 2001 to 2012, 1021 pancreaticoduodenectomies were performed at four institutions. POPFs...