Turns out, patients are more likely to die during off-hours or on weekends - whether due to a brain bleed, a heart attack or a blood clot in the lungs. It is also noted that there was no significant change in the gap between weekday and off-hours survival rate. It showed that more than half of the patients being studied experienced cardiac arrest during off-hours. He also surmised that maybe the patients who made it to hospital during off-hours or weekends were worse off to begin with. Ofoma believes that there’s a way to tackle the survival gap on nights and weekends.

Source: Hindustan Times January 23, 2018 09:56 UTC