Off‐Hour Admission and Mortality Risk for 28 Specific Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of 251 Cohorts

BackgroundA considerable amount of studies have examined the relationship between off‐hours (weekends and nights) admission and mortality risk for various diseases, but the results remain equivocal. Methods and ResultsThrough a search of EMBASE, PUBMED, Web of Science, and Cochrane Database of Syste...

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Main Authors: Yanfeng Zhou, Wenzhen Li, Chulani Herath, Jiahong Xia, Bo Hu, Fujian Song, Shiyi Cao, Zuxun Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
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Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.115.003102