Mortality rate of infectious disease in relation to week days: Three year study in Imam Khomeini Hospital

Tehran University Medical Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 50-54

  Hasibi, Mehrdad ^a   Soudbakhsh, A ^b   Abadi, Z ^b   Mehdipoor, P ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Mortality; Weekends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TUBERCULOSIS; WEEKEND;

EID: 77953399204     PISSN: 16831764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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