Casualty death rate higher on weekends

By Lucy Carroll
Updated November 8 2013 - 10:13pm, first published October 26 2013 - 3:00am

Patients are more likely to die in hospital at weekends than on weekdays, according to ground-breaking Australian research that experts say shows hospital staffing levels must change.

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