Associations between stroke mortality and weekend working by stroke specialist physicians and registered nurses: prospective multicentre cohort study.
<h4>Background</h4>Observational studies have reported higher mortality for patients admitted on weekends. It is not known whether this "weekend effect" is modified by clinical staffing levels on weekends. We aimed to test the hypotheses that rounds by stroke specialist physici...
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| Main Authors: | Benjamin D Bray, Salma Ayis, James Campbell, Geoffrey C Cloud, Martin James, Alex Hoffman, Pippa J Tyrrell, Charles D A Wolfe, Anthony G Rudd |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-08-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001705&type=printable |
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