Weekend hospitalizations for acute aortic dissection have a higher risk of in-hospital mortality compared to weekday hospitalizations.
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, United States. Electronic address: nilaykumar83@gmail.com.
Nilay
N
Kumar
Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
Anand
A
Venkatraman
Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.
Ambarish
A
Pandey
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Rohan
R
Khera
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Neetika
N
Garg
D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000401:mortality*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
Aortic dissection; Hospitalization; Mortality; Outcomes research; Weekend