Weekend matters: Friday and saturday admissions are associated with prolonged hospitalization of children

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 875-878

  Fendler, Wojciech ^a   Baranowska Jazwiecka, Anna ^a   Hogendorf, Anna ^a   Walenciak, Lukasz ^a   Szadkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Piotrowski, Andrzej ^a   Mlynarski, Wojciech ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; KETOACIDOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84883413242     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922812446014     Document Type: Review

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