Posted on 07/09/2012 4:09:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Patients who are admitted to hospital at the weekend suffering from a stroke are less likely to receive vital brain scans and more are more likely to die than those seen during the week, a study of NHS hospitals has found.
A team from Imperial College London and the National Audit Office has found 350 people die within seven days of their stroke unnecessarily because they were admitted at the weekend, and a further 650 suffer serious disability.
Among stroke patients admitted Sundays, 11 percent died within seven days, compared with less than nine percent of those admitted on Mondays.
Dr. Tony Rudd, a stroke consultant at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s in London, and spokesman for the Royal College of Physicians, said: “It’s unacceptable for the NHS to be operating as if people only get ill between Monday and Friday, from nine till five.”
The so-called “weekend effect” was more pronounced in patients aged under 44 who were 60 percent more likely to die after being admitted at the weekend compared with people aged over 85.
It was also found that weekend patients were more likely to suffer a serious disability as the result of their stroke because they were less likely to be discharged home within eight weeks. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What the morons in the Democratic Party are bringing to this country. They’re fools.
comming to a city near you in 2014
We are already “benefiting” from that effect.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/weekend_effect_a_problem_in_un.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2011/06/19/Higher-hospital-risks-at-night-studies-say.html
The so-called “weekend effect” was more pronounced in patients aged under 44 who were 60 percent more likely to die after being admitted at the weekend compared with people aged over 85.
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No kidding. Strokes in relatively young people are far more likely to be the result of hemorrhages than blockages caused by atherosclerosis, hence the higher mortality.
What the morons in the Democratic Party are bringing to this country. They’re fools.
We can’t expect Union members to work on weekends! We don’t have them enough for that! /s/
This is what we will be hearing soon.
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