The weekend effect on the provision of Emergency Surgery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: case–control analysis of a retrospective multicentre database

Abstract Introduction The concept of “weekend effect”, that is, substandard healthcare during weekends, has never been fully demonstrated, and the different outcomes of emergency surgical patients admitted during weekends may be due to different conditions at admission and/or different therapeutic a...

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Main Authors: Giovanni D. Tebala, Marika S. Milani, Roberto Cirocchi, Mark Bignell, Giles Bond-Smith, Christopher Lewis, Vanni Agnoletti, Marco Catarci, Salomone Di Saverio, Gianluigi Luridiana, Fausto Catena, Marco Scatizzi, Pierluigi Marini, the CovidICE-International Collaborative
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-04-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-022-00425-z