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FIGURE 1— The proportion of hospitalized patients leaving acute-care hospitals against medical advice, by their primary diagnostic category: Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, 2002

Note. P < .001 for tests of heterogeneity.