The weekend effect: now you see it, now you don't.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Magnitude and modifiers of the weekend effect in hospital admissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2019
   Pooled it
2. Impact of weekend admission on in-hospital mortality in chronic kidney disease: a nationwide analysis of 184 299 hospitalisations in Poland (2017-2021).BMC nephrology · 2026
   Article
3. Do hospitals have a higher mortality rate on weekend admissions? An observational study to analyse weekend effect on urgent admissions to hospitals in Catalonia.BMJ open · 2021
   Observational
4. Acute pancreatitis and the weekend effect: does weekend admission affect patient outcome?Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2020
   Article
5. What does it take to provide clinical interventions with temporal consistency? A qualitative study of London hyperacute stroke units.BMJ open · 2019
   Observational
6. Mortality for emergency laparotomy is not affected by the weekend effect: a multicentre study.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2019
   Article
7. Association between time of hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction and in-hospital mortality.European heart journal · 2019
   Article
8. Weekend admissions may be associated with poorer recording of long-term comorbidities: a prospective study of emergency admissions using administrative data.BMC health services research · 2018
   Article
9. Is the weekend effect really ubiquitous? A retrospective clinical cohort analysis of 30-day mortality by day of week and time of day using linked population data from New South Wales, Australia.BMJ open · 2018
   Article
10. The enigma of the weekend effect.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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