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Impact of out-of-hours admission on patient mortality: longitudinal analysis in a tertiary acute hospital

BACKGROUND: Emergency hospital admission on weekends is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Previous studies have been limited to examining single years and assessing day—not time—of admission. We used an enhanced longitudinal data set to estimate the ‘weekend effect’ over time and the e...

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Autores principales: Han, Lu, Sutton, Matt, Clough, Stuart, Warner, Richard, Doran, Tim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28971886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2017-006784