2004
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.02.035
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Effects of weekend admission and hospital teaching status on in-hospital mortality

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“…7 Factors cited as contributing to this disparity include skeleton medical and nursing coverage, often exacerbated by less experience, supervision, and patient familiarity than their weekday counterparts. 8,9 Limited specialized clinics, complex medical care, inter-professional expertise, and breakdowns in communication further compromise care during these times. 10 …”
Section: Current Situationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 Factors cited as contributing to this disparity include skeleton medical and nursing coverage, often exacerbated by less experience, supervision, and patient familiarity than their weekday counterparts. 8,9 Limited specialized clinics, complex medical care, inter-professional expertise, and breakdowns in communication further compromise care during these times. 10 …”
Section: Current Situationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As for WE versus WD, although a high mortality in subjects admitted during the WE has been reported by several authors, with an estimated increase of risk between 10% and 32% [14,15,[20][21][22] , in our study there was a trend in which more patients admitted during the WE died than those admitted on WD, but this was not confirmed by multivariate analysis. The results reported in the literature are not always consistent when considering the levels of hospital: the prognostic value of WE admission was identified more frequently in major teaching hospitals compared with nonteaching hospitals [23] , but no correlation between WE admission and IHM was found in patients admitted to tertiary care hospitals [24] .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
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“…3,4,9,14,19 Recent publications included pediatric patients who underwent CSF shunt surgery among those who have experienced the weekend effect, with adverse outcomes seen in same-day weekend shunt revisions. 15 Authors have noted a risk of death, blood transfusion, and procedural complications for urgent weekend surgical admissions higher than that in patients who had urgent surgery during the week.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%