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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2013 Oct;258(4):614–618. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182a5021d

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Major complications and failure to rescue rates for young (<75 years) and elderly (≥75 years) patients across hospitals ranked by overall mortality. Major complication rates are not significantly different between tertiles of hospital mortality. Failure to rescue correlates with mortality and is significantly higher in elderly patients.