Clinicians strive to provide care to patients every day of theweek. Doing so entails effort, and people who work in hospitals(unlike those in many other lines of work) are not always compensatedfor taking the weekend shift. Casual observations of hospitalparking lots suggest that staffing shortfalls may prevail, indicatingthat the intensity of medical care on weekends does not matchthat provided on other days of the week.
The shortfall of weekend medical care is important because theconsequences of adverse events cannot always be offset by workingharder on subsequent days. For example, treatment of myocardial. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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