@article{ref1,
title="Correlation between weather and incidence of selected ophthalmological diagnoses: a database analysis",
journal="Clinical ophthalmology",
year="2016",
author="Kern, Christoph and Kortüm, Karsten and Muller, Michael and Raabe, Florian and Mayer, Wolfgang Johann and Priglinger, Siegfried and Kreutzer, Thomas Christian",
volume="10",
number="",
pages="1587-1592",
abstract="PURPOSE: Our aim was to correlate the overall patient volume and the incidence of several ophthalmological diseases in our emergency department with weather data. <br><br>PATIENTS AND METHODS: For data analysis, we used our clinical data warehouse and weather data. We investigated the weekly overall patient volume and the average weekly incidence of all encoded diagnoses of &quot;conjunctivitis&quot;, &quot;foreign body&quot;, &quot;acute iridocyclitis&quot;, and &quot;corneal abrasion&quot;. A Spearman's correlation was performed to link these data with the weekly average sunshine duration, temperature, and wind speed. <br><br>RESULTS: We noticed increased patient volume in correlation with increasing sunshine duration and higher temperature. Moreover, we found a positive correlation between the weekly incidences of conjunctivitis and of foreign body and weather data. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The results of this data analysis reveal the possible influence of external conditions on the health of a population and can be used for weather-dependent resource allocation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1177-5467",
doi="10.2147/OPTH.S107656",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S107656"
}