Weekend hospitalization and additional risk of death

"Admission at the weekend is associated with increased risk of subsequent death within 30 days of admission. The likelihood of death actually occurring is less on a weekend day than on a mid-week day."

Weekend hospitalization and additional risk of death: An analysis of inpatient data
N Freemantle, et al.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2012, 105: 74-84

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Choosing a model to predict hospital admission

"Characteristics of patients identified by the algorithms provide useful information in the design/costing of intervention strategies to improve care coordination/outcomes for these patients."

Choosing a model to predict hospital admission: an observational study of new variants of predictive models for case finding
J Billings, T Georghiou, I Blunt, M Bardsley
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003352

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Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission

"The overall aim of this series of systematic reviews was to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission."

Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a series of systematic reviews
S Purdy, S Paranjothy, A Huntley, R Thomas, M Mann, D Huws, P Brindle, G Elwyn
Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative
June 2012

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