Effect of season, age, and gender on renal colic incidence

Our objective was to examine the effect of ambient temperature, age, and gender on the incidence of emergency department (ED) renal colic visits. We retrospectively analyzed a database of 15 New Jersey EDs from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 2002. We analyzed the number of renal colic visits as a f...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2004-11, Vol.22 (7), p.560-563
Main Authors: Chauhan, Veena, Eskin, Barnet, Allegra, John R., Cochrane, Dennis G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Ambient temperature
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Associated diseases and complications
Biological and medical sciences
Blood. Blood coagulation. Reticuloendothelial system
Child
Child, Preschool
Colic - epidemiology
Correlation coefficient
Dehydration
Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance
emergency departments
Emergency medical care
Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases)
Endocrinopathies
epidemiology
Female
Gender
Hospitals
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Intensive care medicine
Kidney Diseases - epidemiology
Male
Males
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
New Jersey - epidemiology
Patients
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Physicians
renal colic
Retrospective Studies
Seasonal variations
Seasons
Sex Factors
Temperature
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Summary:Our objective was to examine the effect of ambient temperature, age, and gender on the incidence of emergency department (ED) renal colic visits. We retrospectively analyzed a database of 15 New Jersey EDs from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 2002. We analyzed the number of renal colic visits as a fraction of total visits in monthly intervals. We used the Chi-squared test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient, with P
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2004.08.016