In-Hospital Mortality of Patients With Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Hospitalized on Weekends Versus Weekdays.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In acute aortic dissection, weekend admissions are reported to be associated with increased mortality compared with weekday admissions.

Objective

This study aimed to determine whether patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) admitted on weekends had higher in-hospital mortality than those admitted on weekdays in the Tokyo metropolitan area, where we developed a patient-transfer system for aortic dissection.

Methods

Data were collected during the first year after our transfer system began (cohort I) and in the subsequent years from 2013 to 2015 (cohort II).

Results

We studied 2,339 patients (500 in cohort I; 1,839 in cohort II) with ATAAD. Patients with weekend admissions had higher in-hospital mortality than those with weekday admissions

SUBMITTER: Takahashi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9627801 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature