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Persistence and cycles in US hours worked [PDF]

, 2012
This paper analyses monthly hours worked in the US over the sample period 1939m1 – 2011m10 using a cyclical long memory model; this is based on Gegenbauer processes and characterised by autocorrelations decaying to zero cyclically and at a hyperbolic ...
Caporale, GM, Gil-Alana, LA
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Is there an increased complications rate in after-hours colorectal surgery? [PDF]

Modern Medicine, 2019
When a surgical team is dealing with an after-hours colorectal surgery, they are actually confronting with a chain of elements and events, some linked to the patient and severity of the surgical case, others related to the medical team ability to ...
Bogdan Socea, Oana Halau, Ovidiu Gabriel Bratu, Alexandru Constantin Carap, Tiberiu Paul Neagu, Dumitru Cristinel Badiu, Vlad Denis Constantin   +6 more
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Does time of surgery influence the rate of false-negative appendectomies? A retrospective observational study of 274 patients

Patient Safety in Surgery, 2018
Background Multiple disciplines have described an “after-hours effect” relating to worsened mortality and morbidity outside regular working hours. This retrospective observational study aimed to evaluate whether diagnostic accuracy of a common surgical ...
Kirit Singh, Michael S. J. Wilson, Maria Coats   +2 more
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Safety, efficiency and health-related quality of telephone triage conducted by general practitioners, nurses, or physicians in out-of-hours primary care: a quasi-experimental study using the Assessment of Quality in Telephone Triage (AQTT) to assess audio-recorded telephone calls

BMC Family Practice, 2020
Background To explore and compare safety, efficiency, and health-related quality of telephone triage in out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services performed by general practitioners (GPs), nurses using a computerised decision support system (CDSS), or ...
D. S. Graversen, M. B. Christensen, A. F. Pedersen, A. H. Carlsen, F. Bro, H. C. Christensen, C. H. Vestergaard, L. Huibers   +7 more
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Effects of time and day of admission on the outcome of critically ill patients admitted to ICU [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2016
Background: Studies have shown that patients admitted to hospitals on weekends and after-hours experience worse outcome than those admitted on weekdays and daytime hours. Although admissions of patients to intensive care units (ICUs) occur 24 hours a day,
Jose Orsini, Salil Rajayer, Noeen Ahmad, Nanda Din, Joaquin Morante, Ryan Malik, Ahmed Shim   +6 more
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Do the care process and survival chances differ in patients arriving to a level 1 Indian trauma center, during-hours and after-hours?

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2019
Introduction: Trauma systems vary in performance during different time periods and may affect the patient outcomes, especially in resource-limited settings. The present study was undertaken to study the pattern, epidemiological profile, processes of care
Kapil Dev Soni, Santosh Mahindrakar, Gaurav Kaushik, Subodh Kumar, Sushma Sagar, Amit Gupta   +5 more
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Protocol for a mixed methods exploratory investigation into the role and contribution of the healthcare assistant in out-of-hours palliative care

BMC Nursing, 2021
Background Most people spend their last year of life at home, with many wishing to die there, but patients may need access to care after hours. Out-of-hours palliative care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams including Health Care Assistants (HCA ...
Felicity Hasson, Sonja McIlfatrick, Sheila Payne, Paul Slater, Dori-Anne Finlay, Tracey McConnell, Anne Fee   +6 more
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Diagnostic scope in out-of-hours primary care services in eight European countries: an observational study

BMC Family Practice, 2011
Background In previous years, out- of-hours primary care has been organised in large-scale organisations in many countries. This may have lowered the threshold for many patients to present health problems at nights and during the weekend.
Casado Armando M, Leutgeb Rüdiger, Christensen Morten B, Huber Carola A, Kersnik Janko, Bondevik Gunnar T, Moth Grete, Huibers Linda AMJ, Remmen Roy, Wensing Michel   +9 more
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Pathways to the emergency department - a national, cross-sectional study in Sweden

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Swedish Emergency Departments (EDs) see 2.6 million visits annually. Sweden has a strong tradition of health care databases, but information on patients’ pathways to the ED is not documented in any registry.
Joakim Henricson, Ulf Ekelund, Jens Hartman, Bruno Ziegler, Lisa Kurland, Daniel Björk Wilhelms   +5 more
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Drug prescriptions in Danish out-of-hours primary care: a 1-yearpopulation-based study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016
Objective: General practitioners are the first point of contact in Danish out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. The large number of contacts implies that prescribing behaviour may have considerable impact on health-care expenditures and quality of care.
Morten Bondo Christensen, Karen Busk Nørøxe, Grete Moth, Peter Vedsted, Linda Huibers   +4 more
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