Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of Centralized Pancreatic Surgery: a Single-Center Analysis of 3000 Consecutive Pancreatic Resections.
Fritz KleinUwe PelzerRosa Bianca SchmuckThomas MalinkaMatthäus FelsensteinTimm DeneckeJohann PratschkeMarcus BahraPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)
The decentralization of pancreatic surgery over the last decades has led to a focus on high-volume centers to perform extended procedures in complex patients. The present SWOT analysis underlines the significance of a centralization of pancreatic surgery for patient safety and to increase the chance of long-term survival.