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Mortality risks associated with emergency admissions during weekends and public holidays: electronic health records study
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Background: Higher mortality is associated with weekend hospital admission, but the contributions of varying illness severity and admission time to this ‘weekend effect’ remain unexplored.
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Methods: We analysed unselected emergency admissions to four Oxford University NHS hospitals, UK, January 2006-December 2014. The primary outcome was death within 30-days of admission (in/out of hospital), adjusted for multiple confounders in Cox models including or excluding test results.
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30782-1
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Funding
+ National Institute for Health Research
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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+ Medical Research Council
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Grant:
Clinical Research Training Fellowship to NJF
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Lancet Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 390
- Issue:
- 10089
- Pages:
- 62–72
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-07
- DOI:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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677319
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pubs:677319
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uuid:2a8c029d-c3e1-4577-b1d0-53c84d6b8a09
- Local pid:
- pubs:677319
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Walker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access funded by Department of Health UK, available under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence.
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