Published online December 1, 2004
PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 6 December 2004, pp. 1737-1738 (doi:10.1542/peds.2004-1263)
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Mortality Among Kenyan Children Admitted to a Rural District Hospital on Weekends as Compared With Weekdays

James A. Berkley, MD
Andrew Brent, MRCP
Isaiah Mwangi, MTropPaeds
Mike English, MD
Kathryn Maitland, PhD
Kevin Marsh, FRCP
Norbert Peshu, MTropPaeds
Charles R. Newton, MD
Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (coast)
Kilifi, Kenya

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To the Editor.—

Arias et al1 and Bell and Redelmeier2 recently identified associations between timing of admission and mortality rates in North America. Such studies highlight potential areas for improvement in health care delivery. Hospitals in less-developed countries are typically under-resourced and understaffed all of the time.3 However, similar to North America, there may be differences in health care delivery outside of office hours.

We previously conducted a prospective study of 12 893 consecutive admissions of children ≥90 days old to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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