Is there a clinically significant seasonal component to hospital admissions for atrial fibrillation?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-7

  Upshur, Ross E G ^a,b   Moineddin, Rahim ^b   Crighton, Eric J ^a   Mamdani, Muhammad ^b,c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CANADA; CHRONOBIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONOBIOLOGY PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 2942526816     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-4-5     Document Type: Article

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