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William Palmer

Honorary research fellow, Dr Foster Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Clarifying the ‘weekend effect’

In November 2015, a study on the association between day of delivery and obstetric outcomes caught the headlines (Palmer et al, 2015). There is a risk that some of the more shockingly worded headlines...

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