Table 4 Mean daily emergency department presentations and relative risks by demographic characteristics, December to February 2000 to 2012
From: The impact of heatwaves on emergency department visits in Brisbane, Australia: a time series study
HWD1 | HWD2 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-hot | Single hot | Heatwave | RR* | Non-hot | Single hot | Heatwave | RR* | |
Gender | ||||||||
Female | 0.19 | 0.89 | 1.60 | 4.55 | 0.21 | 4.00 | 5.60 | 17.79 |
(95% CI) | (0.16, 0.22) | (0.30, 1.49) | (0.40, 2.80) | (3.13, 6.61) | (0.18, 0.24) | (2.04, 5.96) | (−0.55, 11.75) | (9.76, 32.43) |
Male | 0.27 | 0.89 | 2.23 | 5.32 | 0.31 | 0.50 | 7.00 | 19.65 |
(95% CI) | (0.23, 0.31) | (0.18, 1.61) | (0.97, 3.49) | (3.83, 7.38) | (0.27, 0.35) | (−0.48, 1.48) | (1.06, 12.94) | (11.22, 34.42) |
Age group, years | ||||||||
0 to 14 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.2 | 3.00 | 0.06 | 0.50 | 0.80 | 29.85 |
(95% CI) | (0.04, 0.08) | (−0.03, 0.25) | (0.03, 0.37) | (1.19, 7.56) | (0.05, 0.07) | (−0.48, 1.48) | (0.07, 1.53) | (7.27, 122.56) |
15 to 64 | 0.29 | 1.26 | 1.63 | 3.64 | 0.32 | 3.50 | 4.00 | 7.49 |
(95% CI) | (0.25, 0.33) | (0.58, 1.94) | (0.87, 2.39) | (2.56, 5.18) | (0.28, 0.36) | (2.52, 4.48) | (0.78, 7.22) | (3.93, 14.25) |
65 to 74 | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.67 | 7.29 | 0.06 | 0 | 2.20 | 23.54 |
(95% CI) | (0.04, 0.06) | (0.01, 0.51) | (0.25, 1.09) | (3.93, 13.53) | (0.04, 0.08) | -- | (0.63, 3.77) | (8.99, 61.69) |
75+ | 0.07 | 0.16 | 1.33 | 9.17 | 0.08 | 0.50 | 5.60 | 37.55 |
(95% CI) | (0.05, 0.09) | (−0.01, 0.33) | (0.01, 2.65) | (5.45, 15.44) | (0.06, 0.1) | (−0.48, 1.48) | (−1.67, 12.87) | (18.34, 76.86) |
Indigenous status | ||||||||
Indigenous | 0.01 | 0 | 0.03 | 1.63 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(95% CI) | (0, 0.02) | -- | (−0.04, 0.1) | (0.14, 19.13) | (0, 0.02) | -- | -- | -- |
Non-indigenous | 0.44 | 1.79 | 3.77 | 4.91 | 0.50 | 4.50 | 12.40 | 18.28 |
(95% CI) | (0.39, 0.49) | (0.95, 2.63) | (1.4, 6.14) | (3.82, 6.31) | (0.44, 0.56) | (3.52, 5.48) | (0.71, 24.09) | (11.85, 28.22) |