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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...
Autores principales: | Meacock, Rachel, Anselmi, Laura, Kristensen, Søren Rud, Doran, Tim, Sutton, Matt |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2016
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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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