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Third, there is a time difference between when the two data sets were collected. The models are not insensitive to time. Fourth, daily severity data were not collected for the Japanese patients, precluding evaluation of the impact of low-risk patient hospital discharges and patient deaths over time. We were unable to select a random stratified sample of hospitals in Japan given the voluntary nature of this professional society-sponsored data-collection effort. buy inhalers online 
Hospitals that discharge patients later will likely report more in-hospital deaths because of the longer time during which patients could die in the hospi-tal. This observation makes the Japanese mortality outcomes striking in that we may have overestimated mortality risk to a greater degree than measured. Consequently, the actual performance of the aggregate Japanese cohort could be somewhat better than we estimate. Detailed information regarding the processes of care is unavailable.