Altitude and environmental climate effects on bronchiolitis severity among children presenting to the emergency department

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 8-15

  Wang, Vincent J ^a   Cavagnaro, Christopher S ^b   Clark, Sunday ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^d   Mansbach, Jonathan M ^e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CHILD HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; DEW POINT; HUMIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

RAIN; SNOW;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ALTITUDE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CAUSALITY; CLIMATE; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WIND;

EID: 84868637163     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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