1. Accounting for outcomes: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Robert M. Sade, MD, Andrea Boan, PhD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 153, Issue 5, Pages (May 2017)
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2. Figure 1
Mortality rates for esophageal cancer surgery. These confidence intervals display the overlap between mortality rates after esophageal cancer surgery, comparing results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (STS DB), St Cifferet surgeons, and hypothetical doctor Andrea Smith.
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3. Confidence intervals convey the uncertainties of comparing outcome data.
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