Incidence of "never events" among weekend admissions versus weekday admissions to US hospitals: national analysis.

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Published in BMJ on April 15, 2015

Authors

Frank J Attenello1, Timothy Wen2, Steven Y Cen3, Alvin Ng4, May Kim-Tenser5, Nerses Sanossian5, Arun P Amar1, William J Mack1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
2: Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA wentimot@usc.edu.
3: Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA.
4: Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA.
5: Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA.

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