Warm Season and Emergency Department Visits to U.S. Children's Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Extreme heat exposures are increasing with climate change. Health effects are well documented in adults, but the risks to children are not well characterized.

Objectives

We estimated the association between warm season (May to September) temperatures and cause-specific emergency department (ED) visits among U.S. children and adolescents.

Methods

This multicenter time-series study leveraged administrative data on 3.8 million ED visits by children and adolescents ≤18 years of age to the EDs of 47 U.S. children's hospitals from May to September from 2016 to 2018. Daily maximum ambient temperature was estimated in the county of the hospital using a spatiotemporal model. We used distributed-lag nonlinear models with a quasi-Poisson distribution to estimate the a

SUBMITTER: Bernstein AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767980 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature