“…Our national referral centre for the treatment of pancreatic diseases fits well within this definition. Paying particular attention to definitions and management [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35], in a prospective clinical audit we have verified the mortality and morbidity of 150 consecutive PDs performed in our centre in the last 3 years before the new millennium.…”