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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...

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Publié dans:J Health Serv Res Policy
Auteurs principaux: Meacock, Rachel, Anselmi, Laura, Kristensen, Søren Rud, Doran, Tim, Sutton, Matt
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: SAGE Publications 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482385/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255144
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1355819616649630
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