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From: Does artificial nutrition improve outcome of critical illness?

Figure 1

Informative censoring in two patient groups with identical hospital mortality but different hospital stay duration. Group A and B have identical hospital mortalities (6/20) but hospital stay in group B is shorter. Kaplan-Meier curves wrongly estimate a lower survival in group B; proportional hazard ratios will be affected likewise.

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