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Table 4 Difference in weekend and weekday length of stay in top 5 admitting disciplines (by volume)

From: Exploring if day and time of admission is associated with average length of stay among inpatients from a tertiary hospital in Singapore: an analytic study based on routine admission data

  

Geometric mean

  

Discipline

n

Weekday

Weekend

Adjusted difference in days*

p-value

General Medicine

11220

5.1

5.3

0.13

0.209

General Surgery

7846

3.0

3.5

0.57

<0.001

Ortho

5636

4.3

4.3

-0.18

0.265

Respiratory

4150

4.4

4.9

0.50

0.002

Neurology (NLD)

3575

4.4

4.9

0.55

0.013

  1. * note: difference for weekend versus weekday admission, adjusted for sex, age group, type and source of admission, admission time and admission on eve of public holiday
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