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Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?
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Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more… Based on the same age groups, the daily means of patient visits and hospitalized patients were calcu- lated. The … “on alert period”. During the “on alert period”, 4,557 visits per day were recorded vs. 4,511 during the “off alert … of 1% (NS). However, during the heat wave period, 476.7 visits/day of eld- erly (75 and more) were recorded vs. …