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Figure 2 Survival Curves of Patients Admitted to the Hospital and Discharged From the ED

Comparison of 1-year survival curves of patients admitted to hospital and discharged from the emergency department (ED). Notice that patients admitted to hospital after syncope had greater (p > 0.0001, log-rank test) rates of mortality than discharged subjects. These differences were also confirmed when adjusting for long-term risk factors.