1. Defining operative mortality: Impact on outcome reporting
Steven Maximus, MD, Jeffrey C. Milliken, MD, Beate Danielsen, PhD, Junaid Khan, MD, Richard Shemin, MD, Joseph S. Carey, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 151, Issue 4, Pages (April 2016)
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2. Figure 1 Method of calculating mortality.
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3. Figure 2
No patients excluded (values based on Table 1). CABG, Coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; ACS, acute coronary syndrome.
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4. Figure 3
Untrackable patients excluded (values based on Table 2). CABG, Coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; ACS, acute coronary syndrome.
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5. Operative mortality using 5 methods.
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