Emergency department visits, ambulance calls, and mortality associated with an exceptional heat wave in Sydney, Australia, 2011: A time-series analysis

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schaffer, Andrea ^a   Muscatello, David ^a   Broome, Richard ^b   Corbett, Stephen ^c   Smith, Wayne ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Australia; Emergency department; Heat wave; Mortality; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DEHYDRATION; HEALTH RISK; HEAT TRANSFER; MORTALITY; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; TIME SERIES;

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEHYDRATION; EMERGENCY CARE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEAT; HEAT STROKE; MIDDLE AGED; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCES; DEHYDRATION; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEAT STROKE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW SOUTH WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857762878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-3     Document Type: Article

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