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Health effects of the September 2009 dust storm in Sydney, Australia: did emergency department visits and hospital admissions increase?

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, April 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Title
Health effects of the September 2009 dust storm in Sydney, Australia: did emergency department visits and hospital admissions increase?
Published in
Environmental Health, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1476-069x-12-32
Pubmed ID
Authors

Alistair Merrifield, Suzanne Schindeler, Bin Jalaludin, Wayne Smith

Abstract

During September 2009, a large dust storm was experienced in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Extremely high levels of particulate matter were recorded, with daily average levels of coarse matter (<10 μm) peaking over 11,000 μg/m3 and fine (<2.5 μm) over 1,600 μg/m3. We conducted an analysis to determine whether the dust storm was associated with increases in all-cause, cardiovascular, respiratory and asthma-related emergency department presentations and hospital admissions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Unknown 98 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 20 20%
Student > Master 18 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 22 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 21%
Environmental Science 14 14%
Engineering 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Other 20 20%
Unknown 30 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 01 January 2021.
All research outputs
#1,341,120
of 25,271,884 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Health
#289
of 1,595 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,136
of 180,269 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#4
of 22 outputs
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