Weekend Effect

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You are more likely to die on the weekend in the hospital. Doctors call is the "weekend effect". Patients are more likely to die off-hours whether it's due to a brain bleed, a heart attack or a clot in the lungs. Ten years after a 2008 study showed lower survival rates during nights or weekends for in hospital cardiac arrest. The new study builds on that previous research, finding that treatment has indeed gotten better, but we haven't closed the night-and-weekends gap. Between 2000 and 2014, weekday survival jumped from 16% to 25.2%, while weekend and weeknight survival rose from 11.9% to 21.9%, according to the new study's risk-adjusted numbers. About half of the patients in the study more ten 150,000 patients from 470 US hospitals experienced cardiac arrest off-hours. Research has also found that children admitted to the hospital for common, urgent surgeries on weekends had a higher adjusted risk of death, blood transfusions, and other complications. Research has shown that The longer it takes for an ambulance to get there, the worse the outcome. Ofoma believes that there's a way to close the gap of weekend deaths: by looking for the hospital with the lowest death rates and see what they are doing differently. 

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