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

BACKGROUND: From January 30-February 6, 2011, New South Wales was affected by an exceptional heat wave, which broke numerous records. Near real-time Emergency Department (ED) and ambulance surveillance allowed rapid detection of an increase in the number of heat-related ED visits and ambulance calls...

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Autores principales: Schaffer, Andrea, Muscatello, David, Broome, Richard, Corbett, Stephen, Smith, Wayne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22273155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-11-3