Cause-specific risk of hospital admission related to extreme heat in older adults

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 312, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 2659-2667

  Bobb, Jennifer F ^a   Obermeyer, Ziad ^b   Wang, Yun ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CAUSE SPECIFIC RISK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDER; HEAT; HEAT STROKE; HEAT WAVE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTICEMIA; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SEASON; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

AGED; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEAT STROKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RISK; SEASONS; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 84920018653     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.15715     Document Type: Article

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