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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:404
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 398.

This report has all the inherent disadvantages of any study in which the data are acquired retrospectively from hospital records, including incomplete data. By various adjustments Hartz and associates have attempted to compensate for these weaknesses. This technique of analyzing retrospectively acquired data is common at all levels of outcomes analysis today. The search for additional significant risk factors that may be obtained retrospectively from hospital records has continued as this report demonstrates. Sometimes these factors may be relevant, but at other times determination . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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