From: How emergency departments might alert for prehospital heat-related excess mortality?
1 May-30 September | 3 August-19 August | |||||
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2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
Number of patients | 31,600 | 33,196 | 34,973 | 3,297 | 3,580 | 3,851 |
Age, mean (standard deviation) (years) | 41.2 (18.9) | 41.0 (18.6) | 40.7 (18.9) | 41.0 (18.3) | 41.0 (18.8) | 43.5 (21.1) |
Male, n (%) | 17,854 (56.5) | 19,287 (58.1) | 19,970 (57.1) | 1,840 (55.8) | 2,158 (60.3) | 2,140 (56.1) |
Emergency department self-referral, n (%) | 19,086 (60.4) | 20,714 (62.4) | 22,628 (64.7) | 2,163 (65.6) | 2,334 (65.2) | 2,418 (62.8) |
Triage level, n (%) | ||||||
Level 1 | 1,138 (3.6) | 1,029 (3.1) | 1,714 (4.9) | 96 (2.9) | 100 (2.8) | 245 (6.4) |
Level 2 | 9,037 (28.6) | 10,490 (31.6) | 11,402 (32.6) | 788 (23.9) | 1,078 (30.1) | 1,240 (32.2) |
Level 3 | 18,360 (58.1) | 18,158 (54.7) | 17,311 (49.5) | 1,951 (59.2) | 1,887 (52.7) | 1,878 (48.8) |
Level 4 | 3,065 (9.7) | 3,519 (10.6) | 4,546 (13) | 465 (14.1) | 516 (14.4) | 488 (12.7) |
Trauma, n (%) | 11,092 (35.1) | 10,855 (32.7) | 10,492 (30) | 1,048 (31.8) | 1,049 (29.3) | 974 (25.3) |
Deceased at the emergency department, n | 19 | 35 | 41 | 4 | 7 | 18 |