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Table 3 Weekday and weekend mortality rates across the top five most prevalent diseases for surgical patients in the cohort

From: Examining the weekend effect across ICU performance metrics

CCS level 1 label

Weekday population

Weekend population

Weekday mortality rate (%)

Weekend mortality rate (%)

P

Diseases of the circulatory system

1449

259

12

27

<.001

Injury and poisoning

586

250

12

12

1.00

Diseases of the digestive system

302

118

7

8

0.67

Neoplasms

246

50

7

4

0.54

Infectious and parasitic diseases

72

34

35

32

1.00