Effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality after emergency general surgery.

M. A. Gillies; N. I. Lone; R. M. Pearse; C. Haddow; L. Smyth; R. W. Parks; T. S. Walsh; E. M. Harrison

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Effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality after emergency general surgery.

April 5, 2017

Gillies MA, Lone NI, Pearse RM, et al. Br J Surg. 2017;104(7):936-945.

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Prior research supports the existence of a weekend effect across numerous health care outcomes. However, in this observational study, the day of the week had no impact on the short- or long-term mortality of patients after emergency general surgery.

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