The use of an ‘acclimatisation’ heatwave measure to compare temperature-related demand for emergency services in Australia, Botswana, Netherlands, Pakistan, and USA

• Naomi van der Linden ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Naomi.vanderLinden@astrazeneca.com

  Current address: Market Access Department, AstraZeneca Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands

  Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1646-9834

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• Thomas Longden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• John R. Richards,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1251-3877

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• Munawar Khursheed,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Wilhelmina M. T. Goddijn,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• Michiel J. van Veelen,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

  Affiliation Princess Marina Hospital & Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Uzma Rahim Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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• M. Christien van der Linden

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Haaglanden Medical Centre, The Hague, Netherlands

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