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Is Hospital Care Worse on Weekends?

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Source: Newsweek


February 29, 2008

If you could control when you got sick enough to need hospital care, it might be worth doing. According to a new study coming out in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, hospital care may be significantly worse on the week

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    DaMomb

    about 5 years ago

    1244 comments

    Fortunately I don't have to experience this anymore. I hated being short staffed every weekend. It wears you out, and stresses you...I can't tell you how many times I'd get called to come in and cover, and even then we'd STILL be short! I could never say "no".

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    charlita

    about 5 years ago

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    Interesting article. I think most of us knew this already. Always short on weekends and then with call-outs too. Sometimes I wonder how we made it thru the weekends without more problems than we had.

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    I agree. I work in a nursing home and on the weekends, we are never staffed properly.

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    about 5 years ago

    I do, 100% and it sits right in the lap of adminstrators and board of directors.

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    about 5 years ago

    I am not sure I totally agree with this article.

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