Study	Reason for exclusion
Barnett 2004	Not a randomised clinical trial
Bassi 1994	Review
Brennan 2000	Comment on an included trial
Büchler 2001	Letter to editor about an included trial
Droeser 2013	Not a randomised controlled trial
Elhadad 1998	Unable to obtain this reference identified by reference searching
Falconi 2002	Cross‐over trial
Frick 1996	Letter to editor about an included trial
Friess 1989	Not performed in people undergoing pancreatic surgery
Friess 1996	Review
Habib 1998	Not a randomised clinical trial (the groups were divided according to whether the pancreas was friable or sclerosed)
Klempa 1979	Not a randomised clinical trial
Lowy 1997	Quasi‐randomised study (randomisation based on their number of medical record)
Shatverian 2004	Not a randomised clinical trial
Van Berge 1997	Performed on healthy volunteers and not on people who were about to undergo or had undergone pancreatic resection
Van Hee 1998	Not a randomised clinical trial
Wang 2012	The control group received somatostatin analogue but different regimens were used between intervention and control
Woltering 2003	Comment on an included trial
Yeo 1999	Editorial