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Excess mortality associated with weekend hospital admissions may be due to patient-level differences, rather than reduced staffing or services

Implications for practice and research ► Practitioners should recognise that patients admitted during weekends more often display clinical characteristics that increase their mortality risk, compared with those admitted during the week. ► Researchers who study the ‘weekend effect’ should consider severity of illness of emergency patients beyond the proxy measures found in administrative datasets.