Journal article
Weekend admissions as an independent predictor of mortality: an analysis of Scottish hospital admissions
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OBJECTIVES: Weekend admissions have been shown to be associated with an increased risk of mortality compared with weekday admissions for many diagnoses. We analysed emergency department admissions within the Scottish National Health Service to investigate whether mortality is increased in case of weekend emergency department admissions. DESIGN: A cohort study. SETTING: Scotland National Health Service (NHS) emergency departments. PARTICIPANTS: 5 271 327 emergency department admissions betwee...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001789
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- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2012-11-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-10-04
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2044-6055
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- English
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- pubs:368571
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368571
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- 2013-11-17
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- Handel et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- © 2012 Handel et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license.
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