The ‘weekend effect’ in acute medicine: a protocol for a team-based ethnography of weekend care for medical patients in acute hospital settings

INTRODUCTION: It is now well-recognised that patients admitted to hospital on weekends are at higher risk of death than those admitted during weekdays. However, the causes of this ‘weekend effect’ are poorly understood. Some contend that there is a deficit of medical staff on weekends resulting in p...

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Autores principales: Tarrant, Carolyn, Sutton, Elizabeth, Angell, Emma, Aldridge, Cassie P, Boyal, Amunpreet, Bion, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Open 2017
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28385913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016755

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28385913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016755

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