Assessment and prediction of short term hospital admissions: the case of Athens, Greece

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 7078-7086

  Kassomenos, P ^a   Papaloukas, C ^a   Petrakis, M ^b   Karakitsios, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Artificial Neural Networks; Athens; Hospital admissions; Meteorology

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CARDIOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; ATHENS; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; METEOROLOGY;

HOSPITALS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; OZONE; SULFITE;

ACCUMULATION; AIR QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; METEOROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SULFUR COMPOUND; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51649113333     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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