Off-Hours Admission and Acute Stroke Care Quality: A Nationwide Study of Performance Measures and Case-Fatality [Clinical Sciences]
Conclusion—
Patients admitted off-hours received a poorer quality of care. However, the admission time–related differences in care were substantially reduced over time, and the differences in 30 days case-fatality appeared primarily to be explained by differences in stroke severity.
Source: Stroke - Category: Neurology Authors: Kristiansen, N. S., Mainz, J., Norgard, B. M., Bartels, P. D., Andersen, G., Johnsen, S. P. Tags: Cerebrovascular disease/stroke, Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage, Acute Cerebral Infarction Clinical Sciences Source Type: research