Table 3

Thirty-day crude and adjusted weekend-to-weekday mortality ORs (WEOR).

Crude WEORWith standard adjustmentAdjustment by NEWS* onlyStandard adjustment+NEWS*
Admissions with NEWS available
(n=146 822)
1.07 (1.01–1.13)1.07 (1.01–1.14)1.02 (0.96–1.08)1.04 (0.98–1.11)
All admissions
(n=163 128)
1.13 (1.08–1.19) †1.11 (1.05–1.17)(standard adjustment+ICU24/NEWS strata)1.08 (1.02–1.14)
ICU240.97 (0.83–1.14) †1.09 (0.92–1.30)
Non-ICU24NEWS ≥71.13 (0.98–1.30) †1.14 (0.97–1.33)
NEWS 5–61.10 (0.96, 1.26) †1.07 (0.92–1.25)
NEWS 1–41.00 (0.92, 1.08) †1.03 (0.95–1.11)
NEWS=01.02 (0.85, 1.22) †1.03 (0.86–1.24)
NEWS missing1.88 (1.47, 2.40) †1.73 (1.33–2.25)
  • ICU, intensive care unit; NEWS, National Early Warning Score.

  • *NEWS included as an uncategorised covariate.

  • †Values from table 2.