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Weekend Admission Increases Risk of Readmissions Following Elective Cervical Spinal Fusion [PDF]
Neurospine, 2023 Objective The “weekend effect” occurs when patients cared for during weekends versus weekdays experience worse outcomes. But reasons for this effect are unclear, especially amongst patients undergoing elective cervical spinal fusion (ECSF).
Renee Ren +10 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The concept of a weekend effect, poorer outcomes for patients admitted to hospitals at the weekend is not new, but is the focus of debate in England.
Kate Honeyford +4 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background The weekend effect is the phenomenon of a patient’s day of admission affecting their risk for mortality. Our study reviews the situation at six secondary hospitals in the greater Helsinki area over a 14-year period by specialty, in order to ...
Morag Tolvi +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectiveTo examine the magnitude of the weekend effect, defined as differences in patient outcomes between weekend and weekday hospital admissions, and factors influencing it.DesignA systematic review incorporating Bayesian meta-analyses and meta ...
Xavier Armoiry +13 more
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BMJ, 2016 “Almost nothing is clear in this tangled tale,” says Martin McKee in his editorial on the so called weekend effect (doi:10.1136/bmj.i2750). So this week we try to help make sense of what we know and what we don’t know about the apparent association between weekend admission to hospital and risk of death (doi:10.1136/bmj.i2781).
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Examining the weekend effect across ICU performance metrics
Critical Care, 2019 Background Known colloquially as the “weekend effect,” the association between weekend admissions and increased mortality within hospital settings has become a highly contested topic over the last two decades.
Louis Faust +2 more
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Effect of weekend admission on mortality associated with severe acute kidney injury in England: A propensity score matched, population-based study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Increased in-hospital mortality associated with weekend admission has been reported for many acute conditions, but no study has investigated "weekend effect" for acute kidney injury requiring dialysis (AKI-D).In this large, propensity score matched ...
Nitin V Kolhe +2 more
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The vanishing ozone weekday/weekend effect [PDF]
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2013 A national analysis of weekday/weekend ozone (O3) differences conducted using 1997-1999 data found that many urban areas experienced at least 5% higher 8-hr maximum O3 concentrations on weekends than on weekdays even though emissions of precursors were significantly lower on weekends. This phenomenon was observed mostly in urban areas in the Northeast,
George T, Wolff +2 more
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Resuscitation Plus, 2020 Aim: This study investigates the potentially adverse association between extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) after cardiac arrest on weekends versus weekdays.
Dirk Lunz +7 more
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Is there a "weekend effect" in kidney transplantation? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The 'weekend effect' describes increased adverse outcomes after weekend hospitalization. We examined weekend-weekday differences in the outcome of 580 patients following renal transplantation (RTx, brain dead donors) between January 2007 and December ...
Katharina Schütte-Nütgen +8 more
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