A Simple Risk Score to Predict In-Hospital Mortality After Pancreatic Resection for Cancer

Pancreatectomy for cancer continues to have substantial perioperative risk, and the factors affecting mortality are ill defined. An integer-based risk score based on national data might help clarify the risk of in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing pancreatic resection. Records with the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer were queried from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 1998–2006. Procedures were categorized as proximal, distal, or...