ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2019
The weekend effect revisited: evidence from the Upper Austrian stroke registry.
Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of Off-Hour Admission With Treatment Delay and Unfavorable Outcomes in Patients With Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Pooled it
- Day-of-the-week variation in ischemic stroke admissions in patients with atrial fibrillation.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- The Weekend Effect on In-Hospital Mortality-First 13-Year Retrospective Observational Study in Slovakia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association between nighttime/weekend visits and patient outcomes in children with blunt liver and spleen injuries.Pediatric surgery international · 2024Article
- Seasonal Variations in Stroke and a Comparison of the Predictors of Unfavorable Outcomes among Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Cardioembolic Stroke.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Weekend effect on 30-day mortality for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke analyzed using severity index and staffing level.PloS one · 2023Article
- The weekend effect in stroke mortality: evidence from Austrian acute care hospitals.International journal of health economics and management · 2022Article
- The weekend effect on mechanical thrombectomy: A nationwide analysis before and after the pivotal 2015 trials.Brain circulationArticle
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Abstract
Empirical evidence on the so-called 'weekend-effect' on stroke mortality is mixed with some studies reporting significantly higher mortality for weekend admissions and others finding no difference. The aim of this paper is to enhance the evidence on the weekend-effect on stroke mortality using a rich stroke registry data set from Upper Austria and to discuss underlying reasons for the heterogeneity in results. Using logistic regressions and ordinary least squares regressions with hospital and year-fixed effects, the outcomes of weekend versus weekday admissions are compared for patients admitted to 16 hospitals in Upper Austria with transient ischemic attack (TIA), cerebral infarction or hemorrhage between 2007 and 2015. The primary outcomes include in-hospital mortality, 30-day and 90-day all-cause mortality as well as the length of hospital stay. In addition, we analyze differences in process-quality indicators between weekdays and weekends. Our results show that on weekends there are on average 25% fewer admissions than on weekdays with significantly higher in-hospital mortality. Adjusting for case-mix, the association between weekend admissions and mortality becomes null suggesting that the higher mortality on weekends is explained by heterogeneities in admissions rather than health-care quality.
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