A study in the current issue of the Journal of American College of Cardiology may make you prefer Mondays. A 2015 study published in BMJ Quality & Safety looked at three million patients in several countries who had been hospitalized. In 2014, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) looked at data from nine million patients admitted to Canadian hospitals. Overall, patients admitted on the weekend for urgent and unexpected conditions had a four per cent higher risk of dying compared with patients admitted during on weekdays. Those who underwent surgical procedures had seven per cent higher odds of dying on the weekend, and urgent weekend patients who did not have surgery had three per cent higher odds of dying.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2018 13:02 UTC