Table 3 Estimated excess morbidity (and 95% confidence intervals) assessed by emergency hospital admissions (EHA) in Switzerland during summer 2015 by sex, age group and region
From: Impact of the warm summer 2015 on emergency hospital admissions in Switzerland
June–August 2015 | July 2015 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Observed (Number) | Excess (Number) | Excess (%) | 95% CI | p-value | Observed (Number) | Excess (Number) | Excess (%) | 95% CI | p-value | |
Total, non-external causesa | 117′280 | 2′768 | 2.4 | (1.6;3.2) | 0.00 | 40′126 | 1′535 | 4.0 | (2.9;5.1) | 0.00 |
Male | 53′878 | 1′410 | 2.7 | (1.6;3.8) | 0.00 | 18′119 | 455 | 2.6 | (0.9;4.2) | 0.00 |
Female | 63′402 | 1′358 | 2.2 | (1.1;3.2) | 0.00 | 22′007 | 1′080 | 5.2 | (3.6;6.7) | 0.00 |
0–14 years | 6′089 | − 264 | −4.2 | (−7.3;-1.0) | 0.01 | 1′970 | − 131 | −6.3 | (− 11.0;-1.5) | 0.01 |
15–64 years | 58′067 | 1′070 | 1.9 | (0.8;3.0) | 0.00 | 19′502 | 230 | 1.2 | (− 0.4;2.8) | 0.14 |
65–74 years | 17′455 | 226 | 1.3 | (−0.7;3.3) | 0.19 | 6′074 | 272 | 4.7 | (1.8;7.6) | 0.00 |
≥75 years | 35′669 | 1′735 | 5.1 | (3.7;6.5) | 0.00 | 12′580 | 1′163 | 10.2 | (8.1;12.3) | 0.00 |
Northwestern Switzerland | 17′562 | 38 | 0.2 | (−1.8;2.2) | 0.83 | 6′019 | 118 | 2.0 | (−0.9;4.9) | 0.17 |
Espace Mittelland | 25′898 | 931 | 3.7 | (2.1;5.4) | 0.00 | 8′799 | 388 | 4.6 | (2.2;7.0) | 0.00 |
Lake Geneva | 21′021 | 970 | 4.8 | (3.0;6.7) | 0.00 | 7′317 | 559 | 8.3 | (5.6;11.0) | 0.00 |
Zurich | 20′109 | 302 | 1.5 | (−0.3;3.4) | 0.11 | 6′913 | 227 | 3.4 | (0.7;6.1) | 0.01 |
Ticino | 6′496 | 503 | 8.4 | (5.1;11.7) | 0.00 | 2′260 | 243 | 12.0 | (7.2;16.9) | 0.00 |
Central Switzerland | 9′649 | 294 | 3.1 | (0.4;5.8) | 0.02 | 3′260 | 106 | 3.4 | (−0.6;7.3) | 0.09 |
Eastern Switzerland | 16′545 | − 269 | −1.6 | (−3.6;0.4) | 0.12 | 5′558 | − 107 | −1.9 | (−4.8;1.1) | 0.21 |