Higher mortality rates amongst emergency patients admitted to hospital at weekends reflect a lower probability of admission

OBJECTIVE: Patients admitted as emergencies to hospitals at the weekend have higher death rates than patients admitted on weekdays. This may be because the restricted service availability at weekends leads to selection of patients with greater average severity of illness. We examined volumes and rat...

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Autores principales: Meacock, Rachel, Anselmi, Laura, Kristensen, Søren Rud, Doran, Tim, Sutton, Matt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1355819616649630

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1355819616649630

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