Abstract
The weekend effect, an association of increased mortality with admission to hospital on the weekend, appears to be true albeit contested. Its cause is unknown but may be weekend staffing. Studies of transplant registries in the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand, and now France, and a single center study in Germany, gratifyingly have shown no weekend effect on patient and graft survival in deceased donor kidney transplantation. However, an increase in early surgical complications has been shown, possibly reflecting technical error as a manifestation of fatigue due to weekend staffing. This observation should be acknowledged in the design and staffing of the workforce of transplant programs.
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