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Is weekend hospital admission associated with increased mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction?

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boxed-textKostis WJ et al. for the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS 10) Study Group (2007) Weekend versus weekday admission and mortality from myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 356: 1099–1109

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  1. GE Rosenthal is Director of the Center of Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice at the Iowa City VA Medical Center. GE Rosenthal is also a Professor of Internal Medicine and Director the Division of General Internal Medicine, and P Cram is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.,

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