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cloverich
on Dec 16, 2020
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Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery...
Just a note, this (and many) titles report _releative_ change as the percentage. E.g. 1% -> 1.5% report as "50% increase". It is IMHO very misleading. At one point I developed a gut reaction to any statistic "Relative or absolute".
Karawebnetwork
on Dec 17, 2020
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6.9% vs 5.6%. Still a big increase and that's just the deaths. I would imagine that errors follow a similar curve.
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