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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 2;364(22):2128–2137. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1010705

Figure 1. Risk-Adjusted Mortality Associated with Cancer Resections among Medicare Patients, 1999 through 2008.

Figure 1

Risk-adjusted mortality was determined with the use of logistic-regression models to adjust for patient characteristics, including age, sex, race, admission acuity, coexisting conditions, and socioeconomic status.