Thirty days mortality

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Thirty Days Mortality is the fraction of patients that died within 30 days from the date of surgery.

For a each patient, thirty days mortality can be true or false. Condition for true is:

There is an operation for which the difference between date of surgery and date of death is less or equal to 30 days.

Example of patient history with true:

2000-01-01 birth
2000-01-15 operation 1
2000-02-12 operation 2
2000-03-01 death

Even though the first (main) operation was more than 30 days before patient's death, there exists a second (possibly trivial) operation after which the patient deceased.

SQL code snippet for the thirty days mortality:

SELECT ...
FROM patient AS p
WHERE EXISTS (
   SELECT TRUE
   FROM operation AS o
   WHERE p.patient_id = o.patient_id
   AND p.date_of_death - o.date_of_surgery BETWEEN 0 AND 30
)

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