ArticlePloS one2017
Is there a "weekend effect" in kidney transplantation?
Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Timing of Transplant Surgery and Its Impact on Short- and Long-term Outcome After Renal Transplantation.Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- Impact of Weekend Effect on Short- and Long-Term Survival of Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy for Cancer: A Population-Based, Inverse Probability of Treatment-Weighted Analysis.Annals of surgical oncology · 2023Article
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- Is night-time surgical procedure for renal graft at higher risk than during the day? A single center study cohort of 179 patients.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2022Article
- Evaluating the "holiday season effect" of hospital care on the risk of mortality from pulmonary embolism: a nationwide analysis in Taiwan.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Tumor Recurrence and Graft Survival in Renal Transplant Recipients with a History of Pretransplant Malignancy: A Matched Pair Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Totally implantable venous access port insertion via open Seldinger approach of the internal jugular vein-a retrospective risk stratification of 500 consecutive patients.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Article
- HTK-N: Modified Histidine-Tryptophan-Ketoglutarate Solution-A Promising New Tool in Solid Organ Preservation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Weekend Effect and in-Hospital Mortality in Elderly Patients with Acute Kidney Injury: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Hospital Database in Italy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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- The weekend effect in liver transplantation.PloS one · 2018Article
- Analyzing the temporal trends of kidney transplantation surgeries and their impact on warm and cold ischemia time in a Canadian setting.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The 'weekend effect' describes increased adverse outcomes after weekend hospitalization. We examined weekend-weekday differences in the outcome of 580 patients following renal transplantation (RTx, brain dead donors) between January 2007 and December 2014 at our center. 3-year patient and graft survival, incidence of delayed graft function (DGF), acute rejections and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, CKD-EPI) at 1 year as well as surgical complications were assessed. Of all 580 transplants, 416 (71.7%) were performed on weekdays (Monday-Friday) and 164 (28.3%) on weekends (Saturday-Sunday). 3-year patient and graft survival, frequencies of DGF, acute rejections and 1-year eGFR as well as length of hospital stay were similar between RTx patients transplanted on weekdays or weekends, respectively. However, a noticeable difference was detected with regard to surgical complications which were more frequent in RTx patients transplanted on weekends. All results remained consistent across all definitions of weekend status. Our results suggest that weekend transplant status does not affect functional short-term and long-term outcomes after RTx. The standardized protocols and operationalized processes applied in RTx might contribute to this finding and may provide a model for other medical procedures that are performed on weekends to improve efficiency and outcomes. The higher rate of surgical complications after weekend RTx needs further elaboration to fully assess the presence of a weekend effect in RTx.
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