Mortality of major cardiovascular emergencies among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays in Taiwan

Abstract Background Several studies have found a so-called weekend effect that patients admitted at the weekends had worse clinical outcomes than patients admitted at the weekdays. We performed this retrospective cohort study to explore the weekend effect in four major cardiovascular emergencies in...

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Main Authors: Chao-Lun Lai, Raymond Nien-Chen Kuo, Ting-Chuan Wang, K. Arnold Chan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06553-7