ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018
The enigma of the weekend effect.
Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Weekend admissions and outcomes in patients with pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Adverse event severity in weekend and after-hours interventional radiology: a multi-institutional quality review.CVIR endovascular · 2026Article
- 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 · 2026Article
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- The Weekend Effect on In-Hospital Mortality-First 13-Year Retrospective Observational Study in Slovakia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Weekend Effect and Mortality Outcomes in Aortic Dissection: A Prospective Analysis.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2024Article
- Association between weekend admission and in-hospital mortality for patients with ischemic heart disease upon surgery treatment.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Burden and patient characteristics associated with repeat consultation for unscheduled care within 30 days in primary care: a retrospective case control study with implications for aging and public health.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Association Between Health System Factors and Utilization of Routine Laboratory Tests in Clinical Teaching Units: a Cohort Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- What does it take to provide clinical interventions with temporal consistency? A qualitative study of London hyperacute stroke units.BMJ open · 2019Observational
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- A closer look at the weekend effect and COVID-19 mortalities.Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicineArticle
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Funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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