Effects of ambient temperature on volume, specialty composition and triage levels of emergency department visits

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 641-644

  Tai, Chia Chun ^a,c   Lee, Chien Chang ^a,b   Shih, Chung Liang ^a   Chen, Shyr Chyr ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE; TRIAGE;

EID: 34548363702     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.045310     Document Type: Article

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