Barba | 2006 | 1.40 | 1.18 | 1.62 | Single centre study in Spain 1999–2003 excluding all elective admissions, elective transfers, critical care patients and births. Adjusted for age, gender, diagnosis-related group weight and comorbidity. |
Aylin | 2010 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.11 | National Health Service (NHS), England emergency admissions 2005/2006. Adjusted for age, sex, deprivation quintile and comorbidity. |
Marco | 2010 | 1.07 | 1.05 | 1.10 | Spanish NHS emergency admissions to internal medicine wards 2005. Adjusted for age, sex and comorbidity |
Freemantle | 2012 (Sat vs Wed) | 1.11 | 1.09 | 1.13 | NHS, England emergency admissions 2009/2010. Adjusted for age; sex; ethnicity; whether the admission was classified as an emergency; source of admission (eg, from home or transfer from another hospital); diagnostic group; number of previous emergency admissions; number of previous complex admissions; comorbidity; social deprivation; hospital trust; day of the year (seasonality) and the day of admission. |
(Sun vs Wed) | 1.14 | 1.12 | 1.16 | NHS, England emergency admissions 2009/2010. Adjusted for age; sex; ethnicity; whether the admission was classified as an emergency; source of admission (eg, from home or transfer from another hospital); diagnostic group; number of previous emergency admissions; number of previous complex admissions; comorbidity; social deprivation; hospital trust; day of the year (seasonality); and the day of admission. |