Nighttime and non-business days are not associated with increased risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with severe sepsis in intensive care units in Japan: The JAAM FORECAST study

Hospital services are reduced during off-hour such as nighttime or weekend. Investigations of the off-hour effect on initial management and outcomes in sepsis are very limited. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that patients who were diagnosed with severe sepsis during the nighttime or on non-business days had altered initial management and clinical outcomes.