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Association between complications and death within 30 days after noncardiac surgery
The Vascular Events in Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation (VISION) Study Investigators, Jessica Spence, Yannick LeManach, Matthew T.V. Chan, C.Y. Wang, Alben Sigamani, Denis Xavier, Rupert Pearse, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Ignacio Garutti, Sadeesh K Srinathan, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Michael Walsh, Flavia Kessler Borges, German Malaga, Valsa Abraham, Atiya Faruqui, Otavio Berwanger, Bruce M. Biccard, Juan Carlos Villar, Daniel I. Sessler, Andrea Kurz, Clara K. Chow, Carisi A. Polanczyk, Wojciech Szczeklik, Gareth Ackland, Garg Amit X., Michael Jacka, Gordon H. Guyatt, Robert J. Sapsford, Colin Williams, Olga Lucía Cortes, Pierre Coriat, Ameen Patel, Maria Tiboni, Emilie P. Belley-Côté, Stephen Yang, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Michael McGillion, Holger J. Schünemann, Simon Parlow, Matthew Patel, Shirley Pettit, Salim Yusuf and P.J. Devereaux; on behalf of the VISION Investigators
CMAJ July 29, 2019 191 (30) E830-E837; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.190221
Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (Spence, Duceppe, Walsh, Guyatt, Belley-Côté, Yang, Heels-Ansdell, Schünemann, Pettit, Yusuf, Devereaux); Anesthesia (Spence, LeManach); Medicine (Walsh, Kessler Borges, A. Patel, Tiboni, Belley-Côté, Schünemann, Yusuf, Devereaux); and School of Nursing (McGillion), McMaster University; Population Health Research Institute (Spence, LeManach, Walsh, Kessler Borges, Belley-Côté, Yang, McGillion, Pettit, Yusuf, Devereaux), Hamilton, Ont.; Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (Chan), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Anesthesia (Wang), University of Malaya, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia; Narayana Health (Sigamani), Bangalore, India; Department of Pharmacology (Sigamani, Xavier, Faruqui), St. John’s Research Institute, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India; Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Pearse), Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau (Alonso-Coello), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón and Facultad de Medicina (Garutti), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Department of Surgery (Srinathan), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.; Department of Medicine (Duceppe, Guyatt), University of Montreal, Montréal, Que.; School of Medicine (Malaga), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Department of Surgery (Abraham), Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India; Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa do Hospital do Coração (Berwanger), São Paulo, Brazil; Academic Research Organization — Albert Einstein Hospital (Berwanger), São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Anaesthesia (Biccard), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine (Biccard), Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Faculty of Health Sciences (Villar), Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Departamento de Investigaciones, Fundación Cardioinfantil — Instituto de Cardiología (Villar, Cortes), Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Outcomes Research (Sessler, Kurz), Cleveland Clinic, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland, OH; Westmead Hospital and Westmead Applied Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health (Chow), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Department of Medicine (Polanczyk), Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Department of Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine (Szczeklik), Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; Department of Anaesthesia (Ackland), University College London, London, UK; Department of Medicine (Garg), London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ont.; Department of Anesthesia (Jacka), University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Medicine (Sapsford), University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Royal Liverpool University Hospital Trust (Williams), Liverpool, UK; Faculté de Médecine (Coriat), Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Department of Anesthesia (Yang), Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Que.; Department of Medicine (Parlow), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (M. Patel), Dublin, Ireland
Jessica Spence
Yannick LeManach
Matthew T.V. Chan
C.Y. Wang
Alben Sigamani
Denis Xavier
Rupert Pearse
Pablo Alonso-Coello
Ignacio Garutti
Sadeesh K Srinathan
Emmanuelle Duceppe
Michael Walsh
Flavia Kessler Borges
German Malaga
Valsa Abraham
Atiya Faruqui
Otavio Berwanger
Bruce M. Biccard
Juan Carlos Villar
Daniel I. Sessler
Andrea Kurz
Clara K. Chow
Carisi A. Polanczyk
Wojciech Szczeklik
Gareth Ackland
Garg Amit X.
Michael Jacka
Gordon H. Guyatt
Robert J. Sapsford
Colin Williams
Olga Lucía Cortes
Pierre Coriat
Ameen Patel
Maria Tiboni
Emilie P. Belley-Côté
Stephen Yang
Diane Heels-Ansdell
Michael McGillion
Holger J. Schünemann
Simon Parlow
Matthew Patel
Shirley Pettit
Salim Yusuf

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The percentages quoted are based on 715 deaths out of 40,000. So the 70% dying in the hospital is of the 715 deaths. Your article needs more clarification regarding the percentages.
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Association between complications and death within 30 days after noncardiac surgery
The Vascular Events in Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation (VISION) Study Investigators, Jessica Spence, Yannick LeManach, Matthew T.V. Chan, C.Y. Wang, Alben Sigamani, Denis Xavier, Rupert Pearse, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Ignacio Garutti, Sadeesh K Srinathan, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Michael Walsh, Flavia Kessler Borges, German Malaga, Valsa Abraham, Atiya Faruqui, Otavio Berwanger, Bruce M. Biccard, Juan Carlos Villar, Daniel I. Sessler, Andrea Kurz, Clara K. Chow, Carisi A. Polanczyk, Wojciech Szczeklik, Gareth Ackland, Garg Amit X., Michael Jacka, Gordon H. Guyatt, Robert J. Sapsford, Colin Williams, Olga Lucía Cortes, Pierre Coriat, Ameen Patel, Maria Tiboni, Emilie P. Belley-Côté, Stephen Yang, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Michael McGillion, Holger J. Schünemann, Simon Parlow, Matthew Patel, Shirley Pettit, Salim Yusuf, P.J. Devereaux
CMAJ Jul 2019, 191 (30) E830-E837; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.190221
Association between complications and death within 30 days after noncardiac surgery
The Vascular Events in Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation (VISION) Study Investigators, Jessica Spence, Yannick LeManach, Matthew T.V. Chan, C.Y. Wang, Alben Sigamani, Denis Xavier, Rupert Pearse, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Ignacio Garutti, Sadeesh K Srinathan, Emmanuelle Duceppe, Michael Walsh, Flavia Kessler Borges, German Malaga, Valsa Abraham, Atiya Faruqui, Otavio Berwanger, Bruce M. Biccard, Juan Carlos Villar, Daniel I. Sessler, Andrea Kurz, Clara K. Chow, Carisi A. Polanczyk, Wojciech Szczeklik, Gareth Ackland, Garg Amit X., Michael Jacka, Gordon H. Guyatt, Robert J. Sapsford, Colin Williams, Olga Lucía Cortes, Pierre Coriat, Ameen Patel, Maria Tiboni, Emilie P. Belley-Côté, Stephen Yang, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Michael McGillion, Holger J. Schünemann, Simon Parlow, Matthew Patel, Shirley Pettit, Salim Yusuf, P.J. Devereaux
CMAJ Jul 2019, 191 (30) E830-E837; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.190221
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