Out-of-hours and weekend admissions to Danish medical departments: Admission rates and 30-day mortality for 20 common medical conditions

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Vest Hansen, Betina ^a   Riis, Anders Hammerich ^a   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a   Christiansen, Christian Fynbo ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYSIPELAS; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NIGHT WORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ULCER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; WORKING TIME; ACUTE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926429990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006731     Document Type: Article

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