Weekend admissions and mortality for major acute disorders across England and Wales: record linkage cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To establish which major disorders are susceptible to increased mortality following acute admissions on weekends, compared with week days, and how this may be explained.

Methods

Cohorts based on national administrative inpatient and mortality data for 14,168,443 hospitalised patients in England and 913,068 in Wales who were admitted for 66 disorders that were associated with at least 200 deaths within 30 days of acute admission. The main outcome measure was the weekend mortality effect (defined as the conventional mortality odds ratio for admissions on weekends compared with week days).

Results

There were large, statistically significant weekend mortality effects (> 20%) in England for 22 of the 66 conditions and in both countries for 14. These 14 were 4 of

SUBMITTER: Roberts SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720086 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature