Bellomy BL, Engoren MC, Martin BJ, et al. - Clinically, treatment of bleeding and venous thromboembolic disease, which are the two important sources of postoperative morbidity and mortality, is often competing. Hence, researchers sought to determine the relative contributions of these 2 disorders to postoperative attributable mortality in a national cohort. They performed a retrospective analysis of the 2006–2017 American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database identifying that in surgical patients, bleeding complications are a consistent source of attributable mortality, while the contribution of venous thromboembolic disease seems to be minimal.