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Unprecedented heat-related deaths during the 2003 heat wave in Paris: consequences on emergency departments

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, December 2003
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Title
Unprecedented heat-related deaths during the 2003 heat wave in Paris: consequences on emergency departments
Published in
Critical Care, December 2003
DOI 10.1186/cc2404
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Authors

Jean-François Dhainaut, Yann-Erick Claessens, Christine Ginsburg, Bruno Riou

Abstract

In August 2003, France sustained an unprecedented heat wave that resulted in 14,800 excess deaths. The consequences were maximal in the Paris area. The Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris reported more than 2600 excess emergency department visits, 1900 excess hospital admissions, and 475 excess deaths despite a rapid organization. Indeed, simple preventice measures before hospital admissions are only able to reduce mortality which mostly occurred at home and in nursing homes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 94 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Master 13 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 19 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 24%
Engineering 10 10%
Environmental Science 9 9%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 5%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 25 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 124. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2023.
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#334,868
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#178
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#404
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