Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards
OPEN Emergency medicine journal : EMJ | 10 Nov 2017
R Meacock and M Sutton
Abstract
Patients admitted to hospital in an emergency at weekends have been found to experience higher mortality rates than those admitted during the week. The National Health Service (NHS) in England has introduced four priority clinical standards for emergency hospital care with the objective of reducing deaths associated with this ‘weekend effect’. This study aimed to determine whether adoption of these clinical standards is associated with the extent to which weekend mortality is elevated.
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