Elevated temperature and nursing home mortality during the 2003 European heat wave [2]

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-139

  Rozzini, Renzo ^a   Zanetti, Ermellina ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUFFER;

AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; EATING DISORDER; ELDERLY CARE; EUROPE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 1642361651     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-8610(04)70074-2     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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