Relation of Perioperative Deaths to Hospital Volume Among Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Resection for Malignancy

The authors examined the effect of hospital and surgeon volume on perioperative mortality rates after pancreatic resection for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.Discharge abstracts from 1972 patients who had undergone pancreaticoduodenectomy or total pancreatectomy for malignancy in New York State between 1984 and 1991 were obtained from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine...