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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2015 Jun;261(6):1184–1190. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000868

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Trajectory of care for Medicare patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis initially managed nonoperatively (N=92,436). 10,247 (11.1%) subsequently required emergent care, 12,176 (13.1%) had recurrent symptoms but did not require hospitalization or surgery, and 70,013 did not require any further intervention. Of the patients who did not require intervention, 70.7% survived to two years. ED=emergency department.