Assessment of The Relationship Between Emergency Service Admissions Due To Primary Headache and Meteorological Parameters

Number: 1 March 1, 2020
  • Hatice Şeyma Akça
  • Sümeyra Acar Kurtuluş
  • İbrahim Altunok
  • Can Özen
  • Serkan Emre Eroğlu
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Assessment of The Relationship Between Emergency Service Admissions Due To Primary Headache and Meteorological Parameters

Abstract

Aim: In this study, it was aimed to analyze the relationship between the patients presenting with a headache to the emergency service and the partial meteorological events at the submission date and sub-parameters of these events.Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, patients aged 18 years and over without trauma and SVD Small vessel disease who were admitted with a primary headache to the emergency service were investigated. The demographical data and the meteorological parameters were analyzed with SPSS v16 SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL program. For the normal distribution fitness of the parameters, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests were used, while for other analyzes, square, t-test, one way ANOVA and Tukey tests were used. 95% confidence interval and p

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English

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Authors

Hatice Şeyma Akça

Sümeyra Acar Kurtuluş

İbrahim Altunok

Can Özen

Serkan Emre Eroğlu

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

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Year 2020 Number: 1

EndNote
Akça HŞ, Kurtuluş SA, Altunok İ, Özen C, Eroğlu SE (March 1, 2020) Assessment of The Relationship Between Emergency Service Admissions Due To Primary Headache and Meteorological Parameters. Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi 1 78–82.