Changing characteristics of hospital admissions but not the children admitted—a whole population study between 2000 and 2013

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Mortality and other outcomes after paediatric hospital admission on the weekend compared to weekday

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Comparison of outcomes in children admitted on weekend days and weekdays.

<p>Data are presented as absolute numbers, the number of cases per day, unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios.</p

Descriptives of the characteristics of the population.

<p>Descriptives of the characteristics of the population.</p

The total number of deaths after admission of a child to a hospital in Scotland and the number who died after admissions on a weekend.

<p>The groups were combined by arrest, respiratory, infection and “other” to ensure that individual cases could not be identified.</p