Introduction Thailand has the highest mortality from road traffic injury (RTI) in the world. There are usually higher incident rates of RTI in Thailand over long holidays such as New Year and Songkran. To our knowledge, there have been no studies that describe the impact of emergency medical service (EMS) utilization by RTI patients in Thailand. We sought to determine the outcomes of EMS utiliz...

BACKGROUND Contrary to the myth that suicides increase around Christmas, multiple studies reveal that suicide rates decrease towards Christmas and return back to normal or even peak in the beginning of the new year. We aimed to replicate this effect for Austria. METHODS The analyses were based on the official suicide statistics 2000-13 using Poission regression and Bayesian changepoint analys...

This paper presents the application of interval type-2 fuzzy inference systems (IT2FIS) in short term load forecasting (STLF) on special days. This is a continuation work of application interval type-2 fuzzy systems (IT2FSs) using Karnik Mendel algorithm. Special days here mean local Balinese holidays such as national and local culture-based public holidays, consecutive holidays, and days prece...

Statistics show that in many countries of the world holidays are associated with an increase morbidity and mortality; this is especially pronounced during New Year Christmas period. This article presents estimate excess number deaths Russia January 2011–2019 by main classes causes death age groups. The study relies on Rosstat dataset 16.83 million individual non-personalized records referring t...

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BACKGROUND Complex temporal variations in coronary deaths, including diurnal, weekly, and seasonal trends, have been reported worldwide. OBJECTIVE To describe the magnitude of seasonal changes in coronary artery deaths in New South Wales, Australia. DESIGN Hospital morbidity data, mortality statistics, and meteorological data were modelled using time series techniques to determine seasonali...

Last week I reviewed a relatively unknown household threat to dogs and cats – bread dough intoxication. More commonly around the holidays emergency rooms see a spike in a specific type of illness in our furry companions – acute pancreatitis. This illness can manifest at any time of year, but incidence around the major winter holidays in the United States is so high that many refer to the days a...