Weekend hospitalizations for acute aortic dissection have a higher risk of in-hospital mortality compared to weekday hospitalizations

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jul 1:214:448-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.187. Epub 2016 Apr 3.

¹ Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
³ Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

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Keywords: Aortic dissection; Hospitalization; Mortality; Outcomes research; Weekend.

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