This effect was not investigated in Ethiopia among adult patients admitted to hospitals. We extracted the data from the electronic medical records, and those with missed outcomes, length of hospital stays, and diagnosis were excluded.
We used a multivariable logistic regression model to determine the association between the outcome and risk factors. The Cox proportional hazard model was utilized to establish the correlation between admission times and mortality risk incidence. Statistical significance was determined using a P value of less than 0.
The Kaplan-Meier curve was utilized to estimate the risk of in-hospital mortality over the duration of the hospital stay. The cumulative mortality risk incidence was higher among medical ward-admitted patients AHR, 1.
There was no statistically significant mortality difference among night versus day or office hours versus off-office hours admitted patients. Moreover, we did identify significant differences in the duration of hospital stays between weekends and weekdays. In this study, weekend-admitted adult medical patients in wards or ICUs have higher in-hospital mortality rates. Editor: Abdelrahman M. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: All the data relevant to the study are included in the article. Competing interests: All authors declared that, there is no conflict of interest.
