Mortality among acute myocardial infarction patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Weekend effect has been considered to be associated with poorer quality of care and patient's survival. For acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, the question of whether patients admitted during off-hours have worse outcomes as compared with patients admitted during on-hours is still inconclusive. We conducted this study to explore the weekend effect in AMI patients, using a nationwide insurance database in Taiwan. Using Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database, we designed a retrospective cohort study, and extracted 184,769 incident cases of AMI through the NHI claims database between January 2006 and December 2014. We divided the patients into weekend admission group and weekday admission group. Patients were stratified as ST elevation/non-ST elevation AMI and receivi

SUBMITTER: Liu SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911718 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature