Mortality among Patients Admitted to Hospitals on Weekends as Compared with Weekdays
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- 30 August 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 345 (9) , 663-668
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa003376
Abstract
The level of staffing in hospitals is often lower on weekends than on weekdays, despite a presumably consistent day-to-day burden of disease. It is uncertain whether in-hospital mortality rates among patients with serious conditions differ according to whether they are admitted on a weekend or on a weekday.Keywords
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