A proposed case-control framework to probabilistically classify individual deaths as expected or excess during extreme hot weather events

BACKGROUND: Most excess deaths that occur during extreme hot weather events do not have natural heat recorded as an underlying or contributing cause. This study aims to identify the specific individuals who died because of hot weather using only secondary data. A novel approach was developed in whic...

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Autores principales: Henderson, Sarah B., Gauld, Jillian S., Rauch, Stephen A., McLean, Kathleen E., Krstic, Nikolas, Hondula, David M., Kosatsky, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27846897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0195-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27846897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0195-z

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