Who elects the weekend?

PLoS Med. 2019 Jan 29;16(1):e1002732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002732. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Abstract

Chaim M. Bell and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw discuss the meaning of the "weekend effect" in outcomes for hospital admissions and surgeries, and comment on surprising new results published in PLOS Medicine this week.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cohort Studies
  • Hospital Mortality
  • Humans
  • Ontario
  • Patient Admission*
  • Time Factors

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.