Patients in the hospital are more likely to die off-hours -- whether it's due to a brain bleed , a heart attack or a clot in the lungs. There was no significant change in the gap between weekday and off-hours survival, the study said. About half of patients in the study -- more than 150,000 patients from 470 US hospitals -- experienced cardiac arrest off-hours. Still, these patients are more likely to die and less likely to get invasive cardiac procedures on weekends, according to one study. Ofoma believes that there's a way to tackle the survival gap on nights and weekends: look at which hospitals have the smallest difference, and figure out what they're doing right.

Source: CNN January 22, 2018 22:07 UTC