Impact of the level of sickness on higher mortality in emergency medical admissions to hospital at weekends

Yes === Routine administrative data have been used to show that patients admitted to hospitals over the weekend appear to have a higher mortality compared to weekday admissions. Such data do not take the severity of sickness of a patient on admission into account. Our aim was to incorporate a standa...

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Main Authors: Mohammed, Mohammed A., Faisal, Muhammad, Richardson, D., Howes, R., Beatson, K., Wright, J., Speed, K.
Language:en
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18011