Associations between stroke mortality and weekend working by stroke specialist physicians and registered nurses: Prospective multicentre cohort study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Bray, Benjamin D ^a   Ayis, Salma ^a   Campbell, James ^b   Cloud, Geoffrey C ^c   James, Martin ^d   Hoffman, Alex ^b   Tyrrell, Pippa J ^e   Wolfe, Charles D A ^a,f   Rudd, Anthony G ^a,f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STROKE UNIT; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PHYSICIANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936113455     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001705     Document Type: Article

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