Off-Hour Admission and In-Hospital Stroke Case Fatality in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program | Zendy

Mathew J. Reeves | Zendy; Eric E. Smith | Zendy; Gregg C. Fonarow | Zendy; Adrian F. Hernandez | Zendy; Wenqin Pan | Zendy; Lee H. Schwamm | Zendy

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Off-Hour Admission and In-Hospital Stroke Case Fatality in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program

Author(s) -

Mathew J. Reeves,

Eric E. Smith,

Gregg C. Fonarow,

Adrian F. Hernandez,

Wenqin Pan,

Lee H. Schwamm

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.108.519355

Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , emergency medicine , case fatality rate , intracerebral hemorrhage , physical therapy , pediatrics , epidemiology , subarachnoid hemorrhage , mechanical engineering , engineering

Previous reports have shown higher in-hospital mortality for patients with acute stroke who arrived on weekends compared with regular workdays. We analyzed the effect of presenting during off-hours, defined as weekends and weeknights (versus weekdays), on in-hospital mortality and on quality of care in the Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke program.

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