Xourafas D, et al. - Researchers investigated whether specific pancreatectomy Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group coding system (MS-DRG) codes, when combined with distinct clinicopathologic and perioperative characteristics, increased the accuracy of predicting 30-day readmission after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). They compared readmitted and non-readmitted patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital following PD in terms of demographic, clinicopathologic, and perioperative factors. As per findings, 30-day readmission after PD could be strongly predicted using distinct pancreatectomy MS-DRG classification codes (405), combined with relevant clinicopathologic and perioperative characteristics. Implementation of DRG classification algorithms could lead to a more accurate identification of patients at a higher risk of readmission.