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ArticleEnvironmental health insights2021

Air Pollution and Emergency Department Visits for Disease of the Genitourinary System.

Mieczysław Szyszkowicz, Stephanie Schoen, Nicholas de Angelis

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Article in Environmental health insights, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mieczysław SzyszkowiczEnvironmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-3267
Stephanie SchoenEnvironmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Nicholas de AngelisBiomedical Program, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Health Canada · CACarleton University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine associations between ambient air pollution and the number of emergency department (ED) visits for diseases of the genitourinary tract in Toronto, Canada. We used the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) database to obtain the related ED visits and developed statistical models using daily data on ED visits, temperature, relative humidity, and outdoor air pollution concentration levels. The NACRS database contains data on hospital-based and community-based ambulatory care. The environmental data were retrieved from the National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) program. The NAPS is the main source of ambient air quality data in Canada. We considered 2 air quality health indexes and 6 air pollutants: daily means of fine particulate matter PM

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Air pollutioncase-crossoverconcentrationcountsgenitourinary systemPoissonstratatime-series

Identifiers

PMID34188483
PMCPMC8212373
OpenAlexW3168370343

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