ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Emergency Department Visits for Heat-Related Emergency Conditions in the United States from 2008-2020.
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- Tree canopy cover and injurious pedestrian falls: a location-based case-control study.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
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- Assessing the Impact of External and Internal Factors on Emergency Department Overcrowding.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Epidemiological characteristics of heat-related illness: a nationwide study in Taiwan.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Climate change and environmental sustainability in emergency medicine: a narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Clinical Outcomes of Discharged Patients With High Blood Pressure in the Emergency Department.Cureus · 2024Article
- One day of environment-induced heat stress damages the murine myocardium.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024Article
- Extreme Heat Events and Emergency Department Visits among Older Adults in California from 2012-2019.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Validity of an ICD-10 Coding Algorithm for Acute Heat Illness in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Impact of extreme heat and heatwaves on children's health: A scoping review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
Exposure to high temperatures is detrimental to human health. As climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme heat events, and raise ambient temperatures, an investigation into the trend of heat-related emergency department (ED) visits over the past decade is necessary to assess the human health impact of this growing public health crisis. ED visits were examined using the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. Visits were included if the diagnostic field contained an ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM code specific to heat-related emergency conditions. Weighted counts were generated using the study design and weighting variables, to estimate the national burden of heat-related ED visits. A total of 1,078,432 weighted visits were included in this study. The annual incidence rate per 100,000 population increased by an average of 2.85% per year, ranging from 18.21 in 2009, to 32.34 in 2018. The total visit burden was greatest in the South (51.55%), with visits increasing to the greatest degree in the Midwest (8.52%). ED visit volume was greatest in July (29.79%), with visits increasing to the greatest degree in July (15.59%) and March (13.18%). An overall increase in heat-related ED visits for heat-related emergency conditions was found during the past decade across the United States, affecting patients in all regions and during all seasons.
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