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Hospital outcomes for paediatric pneumonia and diarrhoea patients admitted in a tertiary hospital on weekdays versus weekends: a retrospective study
BACKGROUND: Quality of patient care in hospitals has been shown to be inconsistent during weekends and night-time hours, and is often associated with reduced patient monitoring, poor antibiotic prescription practices and poor patient outcomes. Poorer care and outcomes are commonly attributed to decr...
Autores principales: | Gathara, David, Irimu, Grace, Kihara, Harrison, Maina, Christopher, Mbori-Ngacha, Dorothy, Mwangi, Julius, Allen, Elizabeth, English, Mike |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23663546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-74 |
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