Acute pancreatitis and the weekend effect: does weekend admission affect patient outcome?
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Weekend hospital admission, acute kidney injury, and mortality.
Admission to the hospital on weekends is associated with increased mortality for several acute illnesses. We investigated whether patients admitted on a weekend with acute kidney injury (AKI) were more likely to die than those admitted on a weekday. Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a large database of admissions to acute care, nonfederal hospitals in the United States, we identified 963,7...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gastroenterology Review
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1895-5770
DOI: 10.5114/pg.2020.95039