Influence of Admission Time on Health Care Quality and Utilization in Patients with Stroke: Analysis for a Possible July Effect and Weekend Effect

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 18; no. 23; p. 12362
• Main Authors: Liu, Chun-Yi, Kung, Pei-Tseng, Chang, Hui-Yun, Hsu, Yueh-Han, Tsai, Wen-Chen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24.11.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Cardiovascular disease; Health insurance; Health services utilization; Heart; Holidays & special occasions; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Length of Stay; Medical personnel; Mortality; Patient Admission; Patients; Quality of Health Care; Regression analysis; Stroke; Stroke - epidemiology; Stroke - therapy; Time Factors; United States > US; Taiwan; utilization; stroke; weekend effect; July effect; quality

(1) Purpose: Undesirable health care outcomes could conceivably increase as a result of the entry of new, less experienced health care personnel into patient care during the month of July (the July effect) or as a result of the less balanced allocation of health care resources on weekends (the weeke...