Emergency Department Presentations During Dry and Humid Heatwaves: A Case‐Crossover Study in the Northern Territory, Australia
Rowena Boyd, Alyson Wright, Nicolas Borchers‐Arriagada, Paul Fox‐Hughes, Fay H Johnston, Paul Burgess, Tracy Ward, Sharon L Campbell · 2026
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Description
Rowena Boyd and team analyzed emergency department visits across all six public hospitals in Australia's Northern Territory from 2001 to 2023. They asked how dry and humid heatwaves each affect demand. A case-crossover design compared each patient's visit day with nearby control days, using two heatwave rules: temperature alone, and temperature combined with humidity. The region spans tropical and arid climates.
Severe heatwaves raised visits by about 4 percent on the temperature rule and about 6 percent when humidity counted. Visitors, skin conditions, and middle-aged adults featured in the dry-heat rises, while Aboriginal peoples and cardiovascular cases featured in the humid-heat rises. The two rules flagged largely different days. The authors call for warning systems that use both measures.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rowena Boyd, Alyson Wright, Nicolas Borchers‐Arriagada, Paul Fox‐Hughes, Fay H Johnston, Paul Burgess, Tracy Ward, Sharon L Campbell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |