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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Main Authors: Walker, A, Watkinson, P, Llewelyn, M, Stoesser, N, Peto, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017