Association of cause-specific hospital admissions with high and low temperatures in Thailand: a nationwide time series study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-optimum temperatures are associated with a considerable mortality burden. However, evidence of temperature with all-cause and cause-specific hospital admissions in tropical countries like Thailand is still limited.

Methods

Daily all-cause and cause-specific hospital admissions for outpatient and inpatient visits were collected from 77 provinces in Thailand from January 2013 to August 2019. A two-stage time-series approach was applied to assess the association between non-optimum temperatures and hospital admission. We first fitted the province-specific temperature-morbidity association and then obtained the national association in the second stage using a random-effects meta-analysis regression. The attributable fraction (AF) of hospital admissions with 95% em

SUBMITTER: Wen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000193 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature