@article{ref1,
title="The influence of the full moon on the number of accessions to an animal emergency centre",
journal="Australian veterinary journal",
year="2007",
author="McAlees, T. J. and Anderson, G. A.",
volume="85",
number="10",
pages="389-391",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the number of animal emergency centre accessions is associated with the time of the full moon. DESIGN AND PROCEDURE: Retrospective study. A comparison was made of the number of accessions to the University of Melbourne Animal Emergency Centre in the period February 2003 to January 2006 on full moon and non-full moon days, adjusted for day of the week and public holiday. A three day period with the day of the full moon as the middle day was taken to be a full moon period. RESULTS: A total of 12,102 animals were presented to the Centre in this time. An adjusted count ratio of 1.048 (95% CI 0.97 to 1.14; P = 0.26) for accessions on full moon days compared with those on non-full moon days indicated that there was no significant association between the full moon and the number of accessions per day. CONCLUSION: There was no significant difference between the number of animals presented to the University of Melbourne Animal Emergency Centre on full moon days and non-full moon days.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0005-0423",
doi="10.1111/j.1751-0813.2007.00191.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-0813.2007.00191.x"
}