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Stroke patients admitted on off-hours more likely to die
Quality Improvement Monitor, February 22, 2008
Stroke patients admitted to the hospital on nights and weekends are more likely to die than those who enter the hospital during regular hours, according to two new studies reported on by HealthDay News.
"We should not be treating patients differently because they had their stroke on a Saturday night," David S. Liebeskind, senior author of one of the studies and associate professor of neurology and associate director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Stroke Center, told HealthDay. "The time of day and day of week shouldn't matter."
"Data on really sick patients during off-hours is not new but the specifics to stroke are," added Jonathan Friedman, MD, associate dean of the Bryan-College Station campus at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
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