Association between rainfall and pediatric emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illness

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1439-1443

  Drayna, Patrick ^a   McLellan, Sandra L ^b   Simpson, Pippa ^a,c   Li, Shun Hwa ^a,c   Gorelick, Marc H ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Environmental risk; Gastroenteritis; Gastrointestinal infections; Public health

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; RAIN; SURFACE WATER;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEWAGE; SEWER; SEWER OVERFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77957927197     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901671     Document Type: Article

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