Patients taken to hospitals at weekends are 16 per cent more likely to die than those admitted during the week, a major study suggests.
Researchers found non-emergency operations – such as hip and knee replacements – are 70 per cent more deadly when performed on the weekend compared to a week day.
But experts believe while a ‘weekend effect’ exists, the higher death rates are not a reflection of poorer care in hospitals on Saturdays and Sundays.
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