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Projecting excess emergency department visits and associated costs in Brisbane, Australia, under population growth and climate change scenarios

The direct and indirect health effects of increasingly warmer temperatures are likely to further burden the already overcrowded hospital emergency departments (EDs). Using current trends and estimates in conjunction with future population growth and climate change scenarios, we show that the increas...

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Autores principales: Toloo, Ghasem (Sam), Hu, Wenbiao, FitzGerald, Gerry, Aitken, Peter, Tong, Shilu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12860