Severity of illness and the weekend effect - Authors' reply.
In their letter, William J Kostis and Abel E Moreyra suggest that the poor availability of detailed data cannot explain all differences in outcomes between patients admitted at weekends and on weekdays. There is no intrinsic causal mechanism for a named day to lead to higher mortality risk and, ther...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017
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