The Impact on Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Illness During the Southern California Wildfires
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The Impact on Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Illness During the Southern California Wildfires
INTRODUCTION In 2007 wildfires ravaged Southern California resulting in the largest evacuation due to a wildfire in American history. We report how these wildfires affected emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory illness. METHODS We extracted data from a Kaiser Permanente database for a single metropolitan community ED. We compared the number of visits due to respiratory illness at t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1936-900X,1936-9018
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2012.10.6917