FACT FIRST · ANALOGY SECOND
All-cause mortality
Factual definition
Deaths from any cause during a stated follow-up period. It avoids relying on cause-of-death classification, but the time period and population still matter.
SATIRICAL ANALOGY — NOT A DEFINITION
The one outcome that does not let a study quietly drop an inconvenient category from the spreadsheet.
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