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“Dr. Steven Maximus of the University of California Irvine Medical Center, and colleagues reported on this phenomenon in the April issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2016;151:1101-10). Specifically, they showed how rates of postoperative mortality after five different cardiac interventions can vary within the same data set depending on the definition of postoperative mortality.”
Read the full article: Choice of cardiac ‘operative mortality’ definition affects outcomes reporting
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