Response: The Proliferation and Misinterpretation of "As Safe As" Statements in Surgical Science: A Call for Professional Discourse to Search for a Solution

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¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dchang8@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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David C Chang et al. J Surg Res. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar:259:A12-A15.

doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.03.074. Epub 2020 Aug 20.

¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: dchang8@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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