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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
If the many reports from around the world have used the same formula as the one jeremy hunt keeps banging on about to support his case then I'd rather not try them and yes it does make a difference if the very reason for implementing it is flawed, he's either incompetent or up to something, time will tell which.
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As I said, regardless why should it make a difference to the strike? The reports, including the ones used by Jeremy Hunt are prepared by the MEDICAL PROFESSION.
I also pointed out that the day of giving birth is not usually chosen. There may be deliveries that are expected to be difficult, but still the day of the week is unknown beforehand. It happens, when it happens.
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This study highlights an association between day of delivery and aspects of performance; in particular, babies born at the weekend had an increased risk of being stillborn or dying in hospital within the first seven days. Moreover, the results also suggest increases in the rates of other complications for both women admitted and babies born at weekends, with higher rates of puerperal infection, injury to neonate, and three day neonatal emergency readmissions.
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Several of the studies have focused on outcomes for selected serious conditions. As such, hospital admission is a certainty in all cases. The "weekend effect" was found in those studies.
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Stroke patients admitted within normal working hours are more likely to achieve process standards and to have better outcomes J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 2016;87:2 138-143
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Objective Higher risks of adverse outcomes have been reported for patients admitted acutely during off-hours. However, in relation to hip fracture, the evidence is inconsistent. We examined whether time of admission influenced compliance with performance measures, surgical delay and 30-day mortality in patients with hip fracture.
Conclusions Patients admitted off-hours and on-hours received similar quality of care. The risk of surgical delay and 30 days mortality was higher among patients admitted during weekends; explanations need to be clarified.
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Results Of a total of 4 317 866 emergency admissions, we found 215 054 in-hospital deaths with an overall crude mortality rate of 5.0% (5.2% for all weekend admissions and 4.9% for all weekday admissions). The overall adjusted odds of death for all emergency admissions was 10% higher (OR 1.10, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.11) in those patients admitted at the weekend compared with patients admitted during a weekday (p<0.001).
Conclusions This is the largest study published on weekend mortality and highlights an area of concern in relation to the delivery of acute services.
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I could probably come up with a 100 other studies all showing the SAME thing.