Condition | Percentage of admissions with the diagnosis recorded in the secondary diagnosis fieldsa | Common odds ratiob for weekend versus week (95% confidence interval) | Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test p-valuec | Breslow-Day test p-valued | ||
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Weekday admissions | Weekend admissions | Total | ||||
Chronic pulmonary disease | 76.44 | 75.82 | 76.29 | 0.962 (0.932 to 0.994) | 0.020 | 0.094 |
Diabetes | 89.20 | 88.72 | 89.08 | 0.950 (0.909 to 0.994) | 0.026 | 0.320 |
Congestive heart failure | 53.27 | 51.32 | 52.78 | 0.922 (0.878 to 0.967) | 0.001 | 0.565 |
Dementia | 83.95 | 84.44 | 84.09 | 1.036 (0.967 to 1.109) | 0.313 | 0.717 |
Hemiplegia / paraplegia | 43.09 | 43.25 | 43.14 | 0.990 (0.892 to 1.099) | 0.852 | 0.031 |
Metastatic cancer | 75.64 | 76.35 | 75.80 | 1.042 (0.902 to 1.204) | 0.579 | 0.473 |