TY - JOUR AU - Burdío, Fernando AU - Grande, Luís AU - Poves, Ignasi PY - 2019 TI - What’s the next step in evaluating laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy? JF - Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition; Vol 8, No 5 (October 01, 2019): Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - In the open approach, pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) continues to be a high-risk procedure with a high rate of severe complications and a global death-rate of 9.2% and 10.1% in some developed European countries, such as France and Germany, respectively (1,2). Most of reported volume-based outcome studies have found a strong inverse association between mortality and hospital volume. In a nationwide German hospital discharge data (2), risk-adjusted mortality of very-low-volume vs very-high-volume hospitals was 11.5% vs. 6.5%, respectively. UR - https://hbsn.amegroups.org/article/view/29682