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by lubutu 1018 days ago
> accounting for patient, procedure, surgeon, anesthesiologist, and hospital characteristics

This suggests to me that they have accounted for that to at least some degree. (I can't read the paper itself so I don't know the details.) At the very least I don't think one can simply dismiss the findings out of hand citing "if you think about it."