Delivering better care and value in urological procedures.
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چکیده
First, we wish to clarify a misunderstanding regarding our methods that was admittedly, poorly phrased: “For RP, we also adjusted for the presence of each postoperative complication during the index admission. For the other 3 procedures (RNx, PNx and RC), due to the smaller number of readmission and complication events, we grouped all postoperative complications and adjusted for the presence of any complications.” It should have read “for each of the 3 other procedures”, emphasizing that we did in fact analyze each procedure separately and reported all the results in one single paper (see Table 2 of original paper).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Canadian journal of urology
دوره 22 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015