Is there a "weekend effect" in kidney transplantation?

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 2014 at our center. 3-year patient and...

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Main Authors: Katharina Schütte-Nütgen, Gerold Thölking, Maximilian Dahmen, Felix Becker, Linus Kebschull, René Schmidt, Hermann Pavenstädt, Barbara Suwelack, Stefan Reuter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5746275?pdf=render