Background The presence of a" weekend effect"(increased mortality rate during Saturday
and/or Sunday admissions) for hospitalized inpatients is uncertain. Purpose We performed a …

Objective To examine the magnitude of the weekend effect, defined as differences in patient
outcomes between weekend and weekday hospital admissions, and factors influencing it …

Objective To develop a predictive model for real-time predictions of length of stay, mortality,
and readmission for hospitalized patients using electronic health records (EHRs). Materials …

Background Increased mortality rates associated with weekend hospital admission (the so-
called weekend effect) have been attributed to suboptimum staffing levels of specialist …

Background Studies in many health systems have shown evidence of poorer quality health
care for patients admitted on weekends or overnight than for those admitted during the week …

Objective Determine how varying longitudinal historical training data can impact prediction
of future clinical decisions. Estimate the “decay rate” of clinical data source relevance …

Background Internationally, hospital survival is lower for patients admitted at weekends and
at night. Data from the UK National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) indicate that crude hospital …

Health-care administrators worldwide are striving to lower the cost of care while improving
the quality of care given. Hospitalization is the largest component of health expenditure …

Our information machines exist to make us faster, more powerful decision-makers.
Computers prompt our limited human memory with reminders of what we should be doing …

Background Emergency hospital admission on weekends is associated with an increased
risk of mortality. Previous studies have been limited to examining single years and …