If you have the chance to plan your next surgery, you might want to avoid Fridays.
Researchers in the U.S. and Canada conducted the study,publishedTuesday in JAMA online grid Open.
This isnt the first time that the study authors have looked into how the calendar might affect surgery.
People getting surgery on Friday may have less staffing to take care of them than usual, according to the researchers of a new study.© Photoroyalty/Shutterstock
Thankfully, for the superstitious crowd out there, the answerappearedto be no.
But there have beenother studies in the pastsuggesting a potential weekend effect on surgery.
As for why, the most pressing factor might simply be less staffing, according to Mundra.
Mundra and her team arent done studying how less obvious factors might affect peoples time in the hospital.
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