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Fig. 4

From: Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection

Fig. 4

Weights and expected LOS for patients with and without an HI in the first 15 daysof los.data, which is a subset of the SIR-3 study. The left figure corresponds to model A (death cases are considered as competing event). The right figure corresponds to model B (death cases are censored). The estimated cLOS due to model A is 1.975 days and that for model B is 0.446 days

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