If you have to go to the emergency room, here's a tip: Try going on a weekday.

According to John Hopkins researchers, weekend hospital stays are more deadly than other times.

The so-called "weekend effect" on patient outcomes has been well documented in cases of heart attack, stroke and aneurism treatment, Hopkins investigators say, and new research now affirms the problem in head trauma care as well.

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