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Posted on 03/14/2025 7:37:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Researchers have tried to answer a longstanding fear that undergoing surgery on a Friday leads to higher levels of complications or even death. Their analysis of data from 429,691 patients has revealed higher rates of complications, readmissions, and mortality in the days and months following surgery compared to those who had procedures performed after the weekend.
Researchers conducted a retrospective, population-based cohort analysis to determine whether patients undergoing surgery immediately before the weekend faced increased risks.
Data from 429,691 adults undergoing one of 25 common surgical procedures in Ontario, Canada, between 2007 and 2019 were analyzed. Patients were divided into two groups: those who underwent surgery one day before the weekend (Friday or pre-holiday) and those who had procedures one day after (Monday or post-holiday).
Researchers assessed short-term (30 days), intermediate (90 days), and long-term (one year) postoperative outcomes, including mortality, readmissions, complications, hospital length of stay, and duration of surgery.
Analysis found that the pre-weekend patient group had longer hospital stays than those in the post-weekend group.
Patients undergoing surgery immediately before the weekend had a 5% higher likelihood of experiencing a combination of mortality, complications, and readmissions within 30 days.
The risk of death was 9% higher at 30 days, and trended higher over time with 10% higher mortality at 90 days and 12% higher at one year.
Intriguingly, scheduled or elective procedures performed before the weekend were associated with worse postoperative outcomes, while urgent unplanned surgeries showed slightly better outcomes when performed before the weekend. Surgeons operating on Fridays had a median age of 47 years, compared to 48 years for those operating on Mondays. The median years in practice were 14 years for Friday surgeries versus 17 years for Monday surgeries.
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Of course. Doctors are always cautioning people with a week end immunity system.
Well done!
Dad joke extraordinaire.
The B-Team comes in the afternoons.
The C-Team works nights and weekends.
Good to Know!
(and I want you to know I stole that joke for future use)
one of the first lessons i learned in coding is you NEVER, launch a new program or revision/update on a fri or pre-holidays... ever
I had an emergency room visit on a Friday evening once. Broken ankle. They taped me up and sent me home. By Sunday afternoon I was back in the hospital, and the head of orthopedics was there. He shook his head at what they had done, dismissed them, took over my case, and did my ankle repair surgery. Great guy. I owe him more than I had to pay him.
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Also, get the day’s earliest appointment time, while the tools are still clean and the doctor is still alert and not thinking of lunch.
And sadly, do not trust any minority doctor who might be DEI. Besides being incompetent, he/she/zhe is trained to hate you.
Sort of like the quality issues with automobiles made on a Friday or Monday.
Interesting.
I would have thought that Monday surgeries might be more risky — in the event the surgeons could’ve partied over the weekend.
Excellent advice X2.
(What are the odds that you’d have Ben Carson walk in? Not great.)
Absolutely.
No Friday surgeries.
No pre holiday surgeries
Broke it once with ortho surgery recently. The physician discussed it with me. I had both his and his PA’s cell number.
Also realize that if you are admitted on a weekend. Unless you are actively bleedng a lot or unable to get air, you will be medicated and dealt vwith during a weekday
It’s made sense for decades.
It’s not new news.
One wonders if it being Ontario Canada also has something to do with it (ie. state run medicine and government doctors)?
Same can be said about cars made on Friday or pre-holiday had a brother that worked at a Chrysler plant in the mid 60’s.
Some lucky guys that went to see their car built received some extra parts not ordered on the car if it was a muscle car the Plymouth Savoy and Dodge 330 were loaded with a Hemi.
They left the plant with a big grin.
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