Patients that had a DP and did not develop POPF had a median decrease in drain duration of 2 days, however this failed to reach statistical significance (6 vs. 4, p = 0.06) (Table 3 ).
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Standardization of early drain removal following pancreatic resection: proposal of the "Ottawa pancreatic drain algorithm".
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In those patients who did not develop a POPF, the rate of organ space SSI was lower following implementation of the OPDA, but this did not reach statistical significance (19.2% vs. 7.9%, p = 0.18).
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The frequency of POPF in patients undergoing DP decreased from 42.9 to 22.7% following implementation of the OPDA, however, this failed to reach significance ( p = 0.30).