Fig. 1

Overview of the patient inclusion flow. Patients having undergone pancreatic resections in the form of a pancreaticoduodenectomy (TP), distal pancreatectomy (DP) or total pancreatectomy (TP) for pancreatic adenocarcinoma from 2011 to 2020 at one of the four pancreatic surgery centers in Denmark were identified in the Danish Pancreatic Cancer Database (DPCD). This dataset was cross referenced with the Danish Anesthesia Database (DAD) for identification of perioperative data. In total, 473 patients had data available in both datasets, thus comprising the study population