Weekend admissions and mortality for major acute disorders across England and Wales: record linkage cohort studies

• Main Authors: Stephen E. Roberts (Author), Ann John (Author), Keir E. Lewis (Author), Jonathan Brown (Author), Ronan A. Lyons (Author), John G. Williams (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background To establish which major disorders are susceptible to increased mortality following acute admissions on weekends, compared with week days, and how this may be explained. Methods Cohorts based on national administrative inpatient and mortality data for 14,168,443 hospitalised pati...