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The primary endpoint was death due to any cause and survival time was defined from time of histological diagnosis to death.
The primary end-point, emergency department length of stay (EDLOS), was defined from triage time to actual discharge time.
Disease-free survival was defined from the time of surgery to the time of radiological evidence of tumour recurrence or metastasis.
Follow-up time was defined from the time of RC until date of complication, death, or end of study (31 December 2008), whichever came first.
We defined time from treatment to conception as time from the last excisional treatment to the date of birth, minus the gestational age at birth.
Intervention time was defined as a time interval from the time of call until arrival in the ED.
The end point of interest was survival time, defined as the time from surgery to death or last follow-up date.
The study endpoint was needle-to-balloon time, defined as the time from local anesthesia infiltration to the first balloon inflation.
For patients who dropped out, were double-sampled, were alive and returned to clinic, we defined "censoring time" to be the time from enrollment to the date of the most recent visit after outreach.
