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In a Medical Intensive Care Unit
© 2007 Elsevier. All rights reserved. Usually, fewer people work in hospitals on weekends than on weekdays. Such shortfalls in hospital staffing levels lead to less effective hospital functioning, and undoubtedly a lower quality of patient care on weekends. For instance, earlier studies have shown that neonatal mortality is higher for babies born on weekends than among those born on weekdays [1...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Nursing
سال: 1964
ISSN: 0002-936X
DOI: 10.2307/3419468