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Coming next month in JACS and online now: Enhancing patient outcomes while containing costs after complex abdominal surgery: A randomized controlled trial of the Whipple accelerated recovery pathway

Researchers report that using the Whipple procedure accelerated the recovery pathway in pancreaticoduodenectomy patients without increasing readmission risk.

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March 1, 2019

Harish Lavu, MD, FACS; Neal S. McCall, MD; and co-authors report their findings in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) that using the Whipple accelerated recovery pathway reduced hospital length of stay, time to adjuvant therapy, and cost in selected pancreaticoduodenectomy patients without increasing readmission risk.

This article and all other JACS content is available at journalacs.org.