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257Background: Burke et al. (2017) revealed that academic hospitals had lower patient mortality rates for common conditions compared to community-based hospitals. We conducted a retrospective study to compare survival of Stage I pancreatic cancer patients in academic versus community-based hospitals throughout the US. Methods: We identified 6,276 patients with single primary Stage IA or IB adenocarcinoma of the pancreas from the NCDB diagnosed from 2004-2012. We only included those who had a partial pancreatectomy, Whipple procedure, or no surgical intervention. In this subset, treatment was classified as none, chemotherapy, radiation, or chemoradiation; we examined the number of days from diagnosis to treatment. Unadjusted survival stratified by facility type was estimated with the Kaplan-Meier method; multivariable Cox regression was used to adjust for patient and facility level characteristics. Results: The log-rank test indicated that survival for patients who received treatment from an academic facil...