Regional short-term climate variations influence on the number of visits for renal colic in a large urban Emergency Department: Results of a 7-year survey

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-147

  Cervellin, Gianfranco ^a   Comelli, Ivan ^a   Comelli, Denis ^b   Cortellini, Pietro ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Meschi, Tiziana ^c   Borghi, Loris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate; Emergency department; Epidemiology; Renal colic; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ITALY; KIDNEY COLIC; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CLIMATE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; ITALY; LINEAR MODELS; RENAL COLIC; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953027022     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-011-0518-6     Document Type: Article

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