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(a) Histogram of time to surgery in the overall cohort. (b) Unadjusted restricted cubic spline transformation of time to surgery. Arrows denote pre-specified knots selected in unadjusted analysis. Y-axis demonstrates the unadjusted log hazard of mortality while X-axis the time to surgery in days. Dotted lines reflect bounds of the 95% confidence interval
