The Weekend Effect in Hospitals: What the Evidence Shows
Patients admitted to hospital at weekends die at slightly higher rates. Adjust for how ill they are on arrival and most of the gap disappears. What the evidence shows.
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Medical Error Is Probably Not the Third Leading Cause of Death. In a Thousand Reviewed Hospital Deaths, 5.2 Per Cent Were Preventable.
File photo: a modern hospital room. Photo: JesusisGreat7, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · September 2026 For World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2026, the WHO focused on safe care for people with noncommunicable diseases. It states that about 1 in 10 patients are harmed during healthcare worldwide, roughly half of that…
