Background Weekend hospital admission is associated with increased mortality, but the
contributions of varying illness severity and admission time to this weekend effect remain …

Importance Forecasting the volume of hospital discharges has important implications for
resource allocation and represents an opportunity to improve patient safety at periods of …

The impact of time of day or day of week on the survival of emergency trauma patients is still
controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of these patients …

Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a time-sensitive and life-threatening medical
condition. We hypothesized that off-hours, which includes night-time, weekends, and …

Objective There is some evidence that weekend admission to the hospital is associated with
worse outcomes compared with weekday admission. However, only a few studies have …

Background Weekend admission is associated with increased mortality across a range of
patient populations and health-care systems. The aim of this study was to determine whether …

Introduction Patients admitted to hospital in an emergency at weekends have been found to
experience higher mortality rates than those admitted during the week. The National Health …

Effective triage tools are indispensable for doctors to make a prompt decision for the
treatment of multiple trauma patients in emergency departments (EDs). The Modified Early …

Introduction It is only in recent years that major trauma systems and networks have been
operating in the UK. High-quality data is available from the Trauma Audit and Research …

Background Previous studies have shown that some patient groups suffer adverse
outcomes if they are acutely admitted to hospital over a weekend. We aimed to investigate …