1. From: Perioperative Use of Dobutamine in Cardiac Surgery and Adverse Cardiac Outcome:Propensity-adjusted Analyses
Anesthes. 2008;108(6): doi: /ALN.0b013e f
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Fig. 2. Comparison of propensity scores for the use of catecholamines by group and quartiles. The figure contains eight box plots. The  lower  and  upper ends  of each box denote the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. The  solid horizontal line  through each shaded box denotes the median of the distribution, and the  cross  denotes the mean. The  vertical solid black lines  (whiskers) reach out to 1.5 × the interquartile range. The  circles  above the whiskers denote individual extreme observations. The  bars  represent the number of subjects included in each quartile. 
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