Trauma Patients Safe From Mortality Risks, Complications Associated With So-Called “Weekend Effect,” Penn Study Shows

People who are in car crashes or suffer serious falls, gunshot or knife wounds and other injuries at nights or on weekends do not appear to be affected by the same medical care disparities as patients who suffer heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrests and other time-sensitive illnesses during those “off hours,” according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine…

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on January 25th, 2010